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Wage and employment effects of non-binding minimum wages
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas - 2010
Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that were already above the new minimum wage. In this...
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Trade, wage gaps, and specific human capital accumulation
Long, Ngo Van; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2003
We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-specific skills, by on-the-job training, knowing that this means their future wages will have to be negotiated, and that the...
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Taxation and unemployment : an applied general equilibrium approach : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Policy Analysis with Numerical Models, July 2004
Boehringer, Christoph; Boeters, Stefan; Feil, Michael - 2004
We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour tax cuts in an economy where wages are determined through firm-union bargaining at the sectoral level. In such a labour market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour...
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Multinational wage premium and wage dynamics
Orefice, Gianluca; Sly, Nicholas; Toubal, Farid - 2015
Using detailed administrative data linking French firms and workers over the years 2002-2007, we document a distinct U-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings observed for several years before domestic firms...
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Distance and the multinational wage premium
Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2018
Combining administrative data on German workers with commercial data on German firms, we find evidence for a distance effect on the multinational wage premium: Foreign multinationals pay lower wages than German multinationals if the ultimate owner is located in close proximity to Germany,...
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2022
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of relative wages and child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …
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Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income satisfaction data
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Kuhställer, Carina - 2016
We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from …
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …
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