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cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Most, but not all, countries experienced substantial increases in wages and earnings … premium rose and the gender premium fell virtually everywhere. At a higher frequency, earnings inequality appears to be …
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We study long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and shifts across economic sectors within the context of balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped aggregate hours...
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wages and hours. Then, we consider the effects of a legislation restricting the maximum working time, while we let wages … respond endogenously. In general, this regulation benefits workers, both unemployed and employed (even if wages decrease), but …
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In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to … wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article …
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The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...
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. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and …
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This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary substantially across family background. This interaction of educational reform...
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This Paper uses a new data set drawn from official earnings records kept by the French national statistical agency … depend on the mobility concept used. Specifically, we find: over time, income mobility in France has risen for some concepts … and fallen for others; comparing genders, women have higher income mobility for some concepts and lower income mobility …
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This paper uses a new data source to investigate whether wages rise more with seniority in unionized or non …
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This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate when seniority is rewarded by automatic incremental scales. Scales are seen as an alternative to individual merit pay. They are likely to be used when individual productivity is hard to measure, when firms provide all workers with...
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