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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers' wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective...

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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013

Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018

We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the increase, but between 2007 and 2013 no clear changes occurred. In 1988 …

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Taking stock of South African income inequality

Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal; Green, Pippa - 2018

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use new datasets-including income tax data-and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and individual earnings inequality in South Africa. Increased...

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Wage inequality in Latin America: Learning from matched employer-employee data

Muñoz S., Ercio; Rucci, Graciana; Saltiel, Fernando; … - 2018

Inequality in Latin America fell substantially in the early 2000s. In this paper, we take advantage of administrative matched employee-employed data in Brazil, Chile and Ecuador to examine whether these inequality trends held in the formal sector, as well. We document a significant decrease in...

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Wage inequality in Latin America : understanding the past to prepare for the future

Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2018

What caused the decline in wage inequality of the 2000s in Latin America? Looking to the future, will the current … economic slowdown be regressive? Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future addresses … line is that the changes in wage inequality resulted from a combination of three forces: (a) education expansion and its …

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Earnings Inequality in Germany : A Decomposition-Analysis

Stein, Ulrike - 2018

Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to working-time, gender and region by exploiting data...

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Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages : New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...

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The State of Jobs in Post-Conflict Areas of Sri Lanka

Newhouse, David Locke - 2018

Although Sri Lanka has made significant progress in social and economic development over the past decade, the Northern and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the labor market dimensions of poverty in these regions,...

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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2018

Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to take into account the growing importance of worker composition effects during downturns. With...

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Overeducation Wage Penalty Among Ph.D. Holders : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio - 2018

The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow measuring the average effect of being mismatched at the mean of the conditional wages...

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