Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings across Advanced Countries? NBER Working Paper Series.

By Dan Devroye, Richard B. Freeman. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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The effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an agent based model (2018, unknown): “Strengthening the latter results, Devroye and Freeman (2001) ﬁnd that skill dispersion explains only 7% of the cross-country differences in inequality.”
Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market (2003, background): “Values in column 2 subtract the overall mean from values in column 1 and divide by the full sample estimate of standard deviation of 64 (Devroye & Freeman 2001).”
Cross-national Differences in Educational Achievement Inequality (2011, background): “…and Domenech 2008; Castello and Domenech 2002; De Gregorio and Lee 2002), although these are strongly mediated by the characteristics of the labor market and other institutions such as collective bargaining and union membership (Blau and Kahn 2005; Carbonaro 2005, 2006; Devroye and Freeman 2001).”
Explaining international differences in male skill wage differentials by differences in demand and supply of skill (2004, unknown): “According to this view high minimum wages, employment protection and the different role of unions are responsible for the relatively favourable labour market position of low skilled workers in continental European countries (Blau and Kahn, 1996, 2001; Devroye and Freeman, 2001).”
Poverty and worklessness in Britain (2004, unknown): “Despite this evidence, Devroye and Freeman (2002) argue that “the explanation of cross-country differences in inequality lies not in the distribution of skills, but in the mechanism by which different pay systems produce dispersion among otherwise similar people in similar situations” (p.16).”
Total Work, Gender and Social Norms (2007, background): “may be due to the fact (Devroye and Freeman, 2001) that differences in educational attainment imply much greater differences in literacy in the U.”
An Analysis of Skill Mismatch Using Direct Measures of Skills (2011, background): “For example, Devroye and Freeman (2001) concluded that in the United States people are sorted on the labour market by literacy proficiency more than any other country.”