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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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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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differential. We show that immoral work is associated withhigher wages, both using correlational evidence from administrative labor …
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the … payments. We argue that in the firm-based system, transfers were likely understood as part of the starting compensation package …
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inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …
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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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When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...
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Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of … substantially reduce their labor supply compared to the case of equal low wages (-22%). This decrease is twice as large as those … induced by low wages due to fair chances or unfair chances coming from an unspecified source. In addition, exploratory …
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evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to …
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