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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual …
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The self selection of migrant workers revisited
Yashiv, Eran (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002396365
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492126
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Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2023
. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477358
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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428349
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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019
German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930728
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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages … support our hypothesis, as employees with low wages have significantly lower local wage flexibility than high wage employees …. This effect is particularly relevant for the lower educational groups. On the other hand, employees with low wages tend to …
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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473280