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differences in social mobility and persistence. …
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lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment …Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into self-employment and a higher exit rate … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …
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that the gender wage gap decreased among newly hired workers. Our estimates of the effect of the law on employment growth …In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …. We estimate the impact of the law on men’s wages, women’s wages, and the gender pay gap using administrative data. The …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296269
We leverage survey data from Germany, Italy, and the US to document several novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among firms and households. First, firms’ expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and aggregate unemployment are more aligned with...
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