Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This paper uses data from the Living in Ireland Survey for 1994, 1997 and 2001 to examine wage inequality, th...

Theoretical research in international trade increasingly focuses on …rm heterogeneity in di¤erentiated product markets following Melitz (2003). A key implication of this line of research is that …rms are unevenly affected by trade liberalization: low productivity …rms exit, intermediate-productivity domestic …rms contract, and high-productivity exporting …rms expand. More recent theoretical res...

This paper attempts to understand the forces that have lead to persistent racial wage inequality by developing a dynamic model of statistical discrimination that accounts for the transmission of earnings across generations. The parameters of this model are then estimated using data from the 1970 and 1990 U.S. Census. The results indicate that racial disparities in the quality of information tha...

Occupations have long been regarded as central to the stratification systems of industrial countries, but have played little role in empirical attempts to explain the well-documented increases in wage inequality that occurred in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. We address this deficiency by assessing occupation-level effects on wage inequality using data from the Current Population Sur...

Acknowledging that wage inequality and intergenerational mobility are strongly interrelated, this paper presents a model in which both are jointly determined. The model enables us to study how inequality and mobility are affected by exogenous changes and what determines their correlation. A main implication of the model is that differences in the amount of public subsidies to education and educ...

approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these endowments. They concluded that country-specific factors, espe...