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Inegalites: peu a voir avec le sexe, l'ethnie ou l'education

21 July 2016

And if income inequality were not related to our kind, our ethnicity or our level of education, but rather to our workplace? Some employers pay better than others. And the gap between those who pay well and those who pay poorly increases more and more.
Four researchers (Alex Bryson, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the Centre for Economic Performance, Richard B. Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Erling Barth, Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo and James Davis, Economist at the Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau) have decided to look at inequality through a different bezel: that of the company rather than the individual.

This article was published online by Les affaires on July 21, 2016
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Related publications
It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the US Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis and Richard Freeman, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1311, November 2014

Related links
Alex Bryson is a CEP alumni
Richard Freeman webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

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