Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market
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Data de Publicação: | 2021 |
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Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
Texto Completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/127191 |
Resumo: | Employment Polarization is often identified as one of the factors driving the growing wage inequality in western economies. But is employment polarization informative about wage inequality and is employment really polarizing? This is the general question driving this paper. By equating a job with an individual rather than an occupation, we re-assess whether Portuguese workers are increasingly concentrated in low and high-wage jobs relative to middle-wage jobs. For this purpose, we assign workers from the Quadros de Pessoal to real hourly wage bins with time-invariant thre sholds and find that, over time, workers increasingly concentrate in the upper bins and diverge from the lower bins, inconsistent with Employment Polarization. Turning to Wage Polarization analysis, we perform and extend the Foster-Wolfson test and find no evidence of wage polarization either.Ourresults contradict the literature and, most importantly, suggest that the channel through which Employment and Wage Polarization are connected is more complex than common lyassumed. |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor MarketEmployment polarizationGender inequalityWage inequalityWage polarizationDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoEmployment Polarization is often identified as one of the factors driving the growing wage inequality in western economies. But is employment polarization informative about wage inequality and is employment really polarizing? This is the general question driving this paper. By equating a job with an individual rather than an occupation, we re-assess whether Portuguese workers are increasingly concentrated in low and high-wage jobs relative to middle-wage jobs. For this purpose, we assign workers from the Quadros de Pessoal to real hourly wage bins with time-invariant thre sholds and find that, over time, workers increasingly concentrate in the upper bins and diverge from the lower bins, inconsistent with Employment Polarization. Turning to Wage Polarization analysis, we perform and extend the Foster-Wolfson test and find no evidence of wage polarization either.Ourresults contradict the literature and, most importantly, suggest that the channel through which Employment and Wage Polarization are connected is more complex than common lyassumed.Batista, CátiaRUNRibeiro, João Miguel Baptista2021-11-05T11:40:07Z2021-05-202021-01-042021-05-20T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/127191TID:202770834enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:07:17Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/127191Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:46:04.306866Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market Ribeiro, João Miguel Baptista Employment polarization Gender inequality Wage inequality Wage polarization Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Is employment really polarizing? Evidence from the Portuguese Labor Market |
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Ribeiro, João Miguel Baptista |
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Ribeiro, João Miguel Baptista |
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Batista, Cátia RUN |
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Ribeiro, João Miguel Baptista |
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Employment polarization Gender inequality Wage inequality Wage polarization Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Employment polarization Gender inequality Wage inequality Wage polarization Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Employment Polarization is often identified as one of the factors driving the growing wage inequality in western economies. But is employment polarization informative about wage inequality and is employment really polarizing? This is the general question driving this paper. By equating a job with an individual rather than an occupation, we re-assess whether Portuguese workers are increasingly concentrated in low and high-wage jobs relative to middle-wage jobs. For this purpose, we assign workers from the Quadros de Pessoal to real hourly wage bins with time-invariant thre sholds and find that, over time, workers increasingly concentrate in the upper bins and diverge from the lower bins, inconsistent with Employment Polarization. Turning to Wage Polarization analysis, we perform and extend the Foster-Wolfson test and find no evidence of wage polarization either.Ourresults contradict the literature and, most importantly, suggest that the channel through which Employment and Wage Polarization are connected is more complex than common lyassumed. |
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2021 |
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