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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our...
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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality
Haskel, Jonathan - 1999
The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471829
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Falling Union Membership and Rising Wage Inequality : What's the Connection?
Card, David - 1998
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of changing union membership on trends in wage dispersion in the U.S. labor market. I use data from the mid-1970s and early 1990s to compare union membership rates for workers in different deciles of the wage distribution, and to calculate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472286
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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes
Edwards, T. Huw - 2002
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469444
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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Statistics to Measure Offshoring and its Impact
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs, along with O*NET data to measure the tradability of tasks. These data were used to measure the shifts in relative labor demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455613
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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation match? To help answer questions like these, we...
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J. - 1999
We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript …, because the measurement error in educational attainment is non-classical, IV estimates also tend to be biased, although the … magnitude of the bias depends upon the nature of the measurement error in the region of educational attainment affected by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471555
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Lifetime Incomes in the United States over Six Decades
Guvenen, Fatih - 2017
Using panel data on individual labor income histories from 1957 to 2013, we document two empirical facts about the distribution of lifetime income in the United States. First, from the cohort that entered the labor market in 1967 to the cohort that entered in 1983, median lifetime income of men...
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Divergent Paths : Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Black-White Earnings Differences, 1940-2014
Bayer, Patrick - 2016
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of black-white earnings differences among all men at different points in the distribution. We study two dimensions of earnings gaps: the black-white difference in earnings; and the difference between a black man's position in the black earnings...
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