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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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Automation and polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...

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Evolution of the East German wage structure

Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...

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How do workers adjust when firms adopt new technologies?

Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, … - 2021

We investigate how workers adjust to firms’ investments into new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, or 3D printing. For this, we collected novel data that links survey information on firms’ technology adoption to administrative social security data....

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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities

Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets. : the Mexican experience 1987 - 2002

Bosch Mossi, Mariano (contributor); … - 2006

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Mental disorders and lifetime earnings

Salokangas, Henri - 2021

In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....

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Exploring the labor market consequences of psychiatric disorders : an event study approach

Salokangas, Henri - 2021

Vast literature documents a negative association between mental disorders and labor market performance but it is challenging to find a research design that could provide an reliable estimate for an effect. This paper provides new evidence on the immediate labor market consequences following the...

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What drives remittances during a global shock? : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

Ambrosius, Christian; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; … - 2021

data at the subnational level in Mexico to study the behavior of remittances during the Covid-19 pandemic. We estimate … results show that destination country conditions have been the main driver of remittances to Mexico, whereas origin country … conditions had no discernible effect on remittances during the pandemic. We also show that contractions in consumption in Mexico …

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