Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
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- Anders Frederiksen & Odile Poulsen, 2010. "Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading," University of East Anglia Applied and Financial Economics Working Paper Series 006, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
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Keywords
bargaining power; two-sector search model; income inequality; skill-biased technological change;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2010-03-20 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LTV-2010-03-20 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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