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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
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generates small welfare gains. As the price of robots falls, inequality rises but the robot tax and its welfare impact become …
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Multinational affiliates are more productive than domestic firms, so how do they affect a host country through the labor market? We use data for Norway to show that the labor market is characterized by a job ladder, with multinationals on the upper rungs. We calibrate a general equilibrium job...
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markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage …
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In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
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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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We find that oil supply shocks decrease average real wages, particularly skilled wages, and increase wage dispersion across regions, particularly unskilled wage dispersion. In a model with spatial energy intensity differences and nontradables, labor demand shifts, while explaining the response...
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employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit quantitatively small, relationship between wage inequality and training … inequality in the UK. Motivated by the above, we explore whether policies to subsidise firms’ monetary cost of training can … improve earnings for the lower skilled and reduce inequality. We achieve this by developing a dynamic general equilibrium …
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essentially matches the empirical lifetime earnings inequality—a first-order proxy for consumption inequality—whereas the …
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