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Earnings Dynamics in Germany
Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021
transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …
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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic...
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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences
Goto, Eiji - 2020
We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...
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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
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Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings
Gehrke, Britta; Dengler, Thomas - 2022
In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries have used short-time work (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk...
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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …
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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting
Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022
, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage …, particularly among service firms where the wage premium is approximately 2%. Furthermore, this average effect masks significant … within-firm heterogeneity with high-skill occupations – and managers in particular – earning higher shifting wage premiums …
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time : A Novel Method Applied to the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2021
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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