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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining : Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996--2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

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 …

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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

BARZA, Radu - 2020

Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in...

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Union wage setting and international trade

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2012

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...

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Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects and 2.5 Million Wage Bill Proposals

Gomez-Herrera, Estrella - 2019

final agreement between employers and successful candidates. Using Heckman and OLS estimation methods we provide empirical …

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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 several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...

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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2022

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...

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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...

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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers : Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

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Do Left-Wing Governments Decrease Wage Inequality Among Civil Servants? Empirical Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...

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