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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762279
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Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal
Andini, Corrado; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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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A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data
Andini, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703197
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Existing evidence on peer effects in a work environment stems from either laboratory experiments or from real-word studies referring to a specific firm or specific occupation. Yet, it is unclear to what extent these findings apply to the labor market in general. In this paper, therefore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884194
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
DiNardo, John; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also...
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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. I find …
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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility
Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The statement that individuals care for status and for their position within a hierarchy has been subject to sparse economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the firm, with status measured as the worker rank in the firm wage hierarchy. More precisely, I focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703295
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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
Guadalupe, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703643
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review
Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703721
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Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective
Plasman, Robert; Sissoko, Salimata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703838