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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533544
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Gender differences in German wage mobility
Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … higher level of wage inequality and a lower level of wage mobility than men in both parts of the country throughout the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957601
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097790
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097817
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098162
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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality
Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find … Continental Europe and rising wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098232
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098266
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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen: Eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Garloff, Alfred; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...
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