Author: Mark E. Schweitzer
Publisher:
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Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Author: Bin Srinidhi
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811278423
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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This book integrates the current research on diversity, equity, and inclusion with corporate practice and describes how these initiatives affect organizations' morale, performance, and output. Academic researchers, corporate executives tasked with implementing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and regulators face the problem of balancing DEI initiatives, which could generate diverse ideas beneficial to the organization, with concerns about diluting meritocracy. Building a diverse workforce could improve both organizational well-being and social harmony. Research has shown that building a diverse workforce often results in communication and coordination issues and unjustified pay and performance gaps, engendering feelings of exclusion among diverse individuals. The book describes how organizations address these issues in various settings ranging from accounting firms to health care providers. It covers settings with gender and racial diversities and clarifies the difference between equality and equity. Its coverage includes dealing with concealable disabilities and promoting equity across diverse populations in organizational and social settings.

Author: Tewodros Ayalew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783346012883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 79, Addis Ababa University, course: MBA in Accounting and Finance, language: English, abstract: This research investigates the effect of the new income tax Proclamation 979/2016 on the employee's disposable income, tax liability and the income inequalities among the high and low income earning groups of employees. For this, the quantitative research method is used and secondary payroll data is collected through the survey by using email and hard copy. The data is analyzed using the summary of descriptive statistics and paired sample means t-Test. Besides this, Gini-coefficient analytical tool is also used to measure the income inequalities among 1120 employees. The payroll data is gathered from 8 different public and private companies in Addis Ababa. The sample is selected by applying purposive sampling techniques and the sample size is determined using a statistical formula for an unknown population. The result shows that the tax reform brings a 9% increases on a disposable income and 30% decreases on the income tax liability of employees under this investigation. But on the contrary, the new tax reform doesn't play its role in reducing the income inequality among different income earning groups of employees rather it shows 0.4% marginal increases in income inequalities. This is because of reform gives higher disposable income for the top 20% income earning groups than the lower one. Furthermore, the study evidences the existence of high-income inequality among employees which is 0.41 Gini coefficient. It is slightly higher than the national Gini coefficient it is because of the size and scope of the study. Finally, the research indicates that 73% of the income tax revenue has paid by the top 20% income earning groups. So, it is advisable for policymakers to improve the minimum taxable income from birr 601 to birr1500 to reduce the income inequality by minimizi

Author: Ms.Era Dabla-Norris
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1513547437
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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This paper analyzes the extent of income inequality from a global perspective, its drivers, and what to do about it. The drivers of inequality vary widely amongst countries, with some common drivers being the skill premium associated with technical change and globalization, weakening protection for labor, and lack of financial inclusion in developing countries. We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the top 20 percent results in lower growth—that is, when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down. This suggests that policies need to be country specific but should focus on raising the income share of the poor, and ensuring there is no hollowing out of the middle class. To tackle inequality, financial inclusion is imperative in emerging and developing countries while in advanced economies, policies should focus on raising human capital and skills and making tax systems more progressive.

Author: Ulrike Stein
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Languages : en
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Category : Corporations, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Arne L. Kalleberg
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080474233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Aage Sorensen was an influential intellectual presence who was one of the world's leading authorities on social stratification and the sociology of education. His research sought to understand the structures, dynamics and mechanisms that underlie inequalities in industrial societies by focusing on how individuals' attainments are shaped by characteristics of a society's or organization's opportunity structure, on the one hand, and individuals' education, experience and other human capital resources, on the other. He emphasized inequalities associated with education and schooling, class, and stratification outcomes such as income and occupational status. Within these general foci, he tackled the study of phenomena as diverse as rates of learning in elementary school reading groups and promotion patterns in large industrial corporations. The chapters of this volume illustrate some of the major themes that characterized Aage's research; these topics are also likely to constitute important concerns for future efforts to understand structured social inequality in society. These themes include: the development of explicit dynamic models to account for observed patterns of education, career, and labor market outcomes; aspects of educational inequality such as school effects and learning opportunities; issues related to intragenerational mobility and careers; and the role of rents in generating structural inequality.

Author: Lawrence R. Mishel
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
ISBN: 9780801445293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Praise for previous editions of The State of Working America: "The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."--Robert B. Reich"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the authors, rather than new technology (as some would have it), that is responsible for the failure of America's workplace to keep pace with the country's economic growth. The State of Working America is a well-written, soundly argued, and important reference book."--Library Journal "If you want to know what happened to the economic well-being of the average American in the past decade or so, this is the book for you. It should be required reading for Americans of all political persuasions."--Richard Freeman, Harvard University "A truly comprehensive and useful book that provides a reality check on loose statements about U.S. labor markets. It should be cheered by all Americans who earn their living from work."--William Wolman, former chief economist, CNBC's Business Week "The State of Working America provides very valuable factual and analytic material on the economic conditions of American workers. It is the very best source of information on this important subject."--Ray Marshall, University of Texas, former U.S. Secretary of Labor"An indispensable work . . . on family income, wages, taxes, employment, and the distribution of wealth."--Simon Head, The New York Review of Books "No matter what political camp you're in, this is the single most valuable book I know of about the state of America, period. It is the most referenced, most influential resource book of its kind."--Jeff Madrick, author, The End of Affluence "This book is the single best yardstick for measuring whether or not our economic policies are doing enough to ensure that our economy can, once again, grow for everybody."--Richard A. Gephardt "The best place to review the latest developments in changes in the distribution of income and wealth."--Lester ThurowThe State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people.

Author: John M. Abowd
Publisher: Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche et développement en économique
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decomposed into components related to observable characteristics, worker heterogeneity, firm heterogeneity and residual variation. Except for the residual, all components may be correlated in an arbitrary fashion. At the level of the individual, we find that person-effects, especially those not related to observables like education, are the most important source of wage variation in France. Firm-effects, while important, are not as important as person-effects. At the level of firms, we find that enterprises that hire high-wage workers are more productive but not more profitable. They are also more capital and high-skilled employee intensive. Enterprises that pay higher wages, controlling for person-effects, are more productive and more profitable. They are also more capital intensive but are not more high-skilled labor intensive. We also find that person-effects explain 92% of inter-industry wage differentials.

Author: Yujia Liu
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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This dissertation develops a new approach to analyzing changes in wage inequality in the United States, based on a comprehensive framework of nonmanual workplace skill, including cognitive, creative, technical and social types of skill, measured at the occupational level. By applying this framework to the individual-level 1983-2010 Current Population Surveys, we are able to adjudicate between competing accounts of the changing market structure, returns to skill, and wage inequality. We find substantial heterogeneity in the payoff to different types of skill. The most important trend under this multidimensional model is a precipitous increase in the payoff to analytical skill that involves synthesis, critical thinking, and abstract reasoning. This multidimensional approach is also helpful in expanding our knowledge on gender and racial gaps in skill and earnings. As we apply this model to different gender and racial groups separately, we find sizeable gender and racial disparities in terms of employment distribution and wage returns across different types of skill. We argue that this multidimensional framework of skill can better gauge the relationship between skill-biased trends and earnings inequality. These trends are driven more by institutional, social, and cultural changes than by narrowly defined technological change.