inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues …This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues …

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural … factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages … equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s. …

self-employment. Output is reallocated to more productive firms but, given fast labor-productivity growth, this product …

selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …

firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers' productivity …