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From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...
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Schooling Inequality, Returns to Schooling, and Earnings InequalityHuman capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these ‘quantity’ and ‘price’ components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in...
Journal Special Issue
Inequality and Poverty in ChinaGetting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world’s most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded. China...
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Private Returns to Education for Wage-employees and the Self-employed in UgandaThe paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate...
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Inequality in EducationThis paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and...
Journal Article
Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic Development in Urban China, 1988-97Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Poverty in China
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Wage Determination in Rural Labour MarketsThe nature of labour market in traditional rural societies has attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. One issue that has appeared particularly intriguing is the process of wage determination. After a good deal of theorising as well as...
Book Chapter
A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic AdjustmentPart of Book Growth, Inequality and Poverty
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Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration...
Book Chapter
Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships 1989-1997Part of Book Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
Book Chapter
Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African CountriesPart of Book Spatial Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
International Trade, Location, and Wage Inequality in ChinaPart of Book Spatial Inequality and Development
Working Paper
Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South AfricaIn this paper, we use the new economic geography (NEG) framework to estimate the extent to which spatial wage disparities in the South African manufacturing sector are an outcome of economic forces such as market access. To test the relationship, we...
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