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Place-specific determinants of income gaps: New sub-national evidence from Mexico - Ricardo Hausmann
January 2021, Paper: "The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap has shrunk while the wage gap has widened, and we find no evidence indicating that Chiapas indigenes are worse-off than their likes elsewhere in Mexico. We explore a different hypothesis and argue that place-specific…
| Ricardo Hausmann
May 19, 2020, Paper: "We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in 23 countries. The sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross‐country variation in gender gaps and how these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is…
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2020, Paper: "We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compression on the way individuals self-select between the public and the private sector. Similar to other countries, the public sectors in Albania and Sri Lanka pay higher wages than the private sector, for all but the most valued employees.…
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How Not to Think About Job Creation. Ricardo Hausmann, July 31, 2019, Opinion, "Governments are right to focus on creating more good jobs, because work is the source of most people’s livelihood in every society. But in the majority of cases, the solution lies in policy areas that are not amenable to tools wielded by ministers of labor or education."…
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How Not to Fight Income Inequality. Ricardo Hausmann, November 14, 2018, Opinion, "Trying to combat income inequality through mandated wage compression is not just an odd preference. It is a mistake, as Mexico's president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will find out in a few years, after much damage has been done."…
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The Slavery Incentive. Ricardo Hausmann, August 31, 2018, Opinion, "By restricting the workers’ outside options, employers may get them to accept terms that freer individuals would reject. That may be a reason why there is so little urgency in solving the problem of undocumented immigrants in the US, and why many countries protect citizens differently than foreigners."…
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Das Knowhow Kapital. Ricardo Hausmann, March 17, 2017, Opinion, "It has been a quarter-century since apartheid ended, and 23 since the African National Congress took power in South Africa. But, as President Jacob Zuma reported in his recent State of the Nation Address, the country’s whites remain in control. “White households earn at least five times more than black households,” said Zuma, and “only 10% of the top 100 companies on the…
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Welcome Home in a Crisis: Effects of Return Migration on the Non-migrants' Wages and Employment. Ricardo Hausmann, 2017, Paper, "Albanian migrants in Greece were particularly affected by the Greek crisis, which spurred a wave of return migration that increased Albania’s labor force by 5% between 2011 and 2014 alone. We study how this return migration affected the employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. We find positive…
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The Logic of the Informal Economy. Ricardo Hausmann, June 19, 2013, Opinion. "A specter is haunting the world’s developing countries – the specter of the “informal” economy. For some, the informal sector includes all businesses that have not been registered with the authorities. For others, it refers to businesses that escape taxation. The International Labor Organization defines it as comprising firms that are small enough to fall outside the…
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A Network View of Economic Development. Ricardo Hausmann, 2008, Paper. "This paper discusses whether the type of product a country produces and exports matter for subsequent economic performance by applying a network view of economic development. The authors argue for a network view to describe product relatedness and illuminate various aspects of such development. Their main goal is to develop a more nuanced view of development, concentrating…