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2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … the transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in the permanent wage inequality. The transitory ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …
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. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium … question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 …
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We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the …
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates separately for men and women in the public and in the private sectors, and we take...
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This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates of the average gains from training participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings,...
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We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …
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We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level …, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate … whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find only weak evidence that Germans are …
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In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
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The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese male workers, former working students, we estimate the total impact of an additional year of...
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
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