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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...
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effect on the multinational wage premium: Foreign multinationals pay lower wages than German multinationals if the ultimate … multinationals and domestic multinationals pay wages of similar size, with both types of firms paying a premium relative to other … local firms. To provide a rationale for this pattern, we develop a theoretical model in which wages are firm-specific and …
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …
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Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …
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effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the …
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profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry … causes and determinants, we relate expected wages to sorting into majors, industries, and occupations, child-rearing plans …
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We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique dataset consists of 257,111 digitally tradeable tasks of 55,824 hiring employers from 188 countries and 65,010 workers from 173 countries that made more than 2.5 million wage...
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The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, 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...
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