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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Labor market competition and inequality

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2023

Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the...

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

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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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S. - 2000

To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...

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How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns

Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023

This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...

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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality

Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

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Multitasking and wages

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …

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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited

Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 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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