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We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from Social Security records to document earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, showed a substantial decrease during the 1997-2007...
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selection; the observed average gap in hourly wages of 35 log points is reduced to 20 when accounting for observed …
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selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics that affect their productivity. Wages in Mexico of those migrants …-returning migrants in terms of unobserved productivity. To test whether returning migrants' wages contain any useful information, I …' wages reflect their pre-emigration productivity and are not affected by possible human capital gains derived from the …
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endogeneity of the ownership status and institutional differences across countries. Third, post-unemployment wages are studied. We … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …
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Despite a rapid decrease in unemployment and strong GDP and employment growth, real wages barely increased in Spain … characteristics remain constant over time. Our main finding is that the lack of growth of Spanish real wages over the period 1995 … taken over a wide set of worker and job characteristics, had positive effects on wages. …
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In this paper we use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2005 (MCVL2005) to analyze the earnings assimilation of migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial wage gap respect to natives the first 5 to 6...
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This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), that makes possible to do the distinction between voluntary...
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. We relate wages and their various components with macroeconomic and institutional trends and find that technology and … globalisation are associated with wage increases; migration is associated with declines in wages; whereas the effect of labour …
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variance of standarized individual wages. In particular, I propose a dynamic panel data model with individual effects both in …
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Some pieces of empirical evidence suggest that in the U.S., over the last few decades, (i) wage inequality between-plants has risen much more than wage inequality within-plants and (ii) there has been an increase in the segregation of workers by skill into separate plants. This paper presents a...
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