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Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275007
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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children’s wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815848
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012
Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290766
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Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425645
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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; … - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425700
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018
firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers’ wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815783
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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; … - 2021
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314747
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Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2021
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314852