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This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
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. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …
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between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …
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, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
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the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
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