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We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using … workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that vacancy durations are negatively correlated with the starting wage and … that this negative association is particularly strong with the establishment component of the starting wage. We also …
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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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worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity … the minimum wage cuts deep into the wage distribution. I show that gradually implementing a high minimum wage is necessary …
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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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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
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firm with stochastic product demand and hiring cost (= irreversible specific investments). There is wage bargaining between …
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This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as …
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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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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
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