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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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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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Climbing the economic ladder : earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023 - updated: June 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320209
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Educational returns, ability composition and cohort effects : theory and evidence for cohorts of early-career UK graduates
Ireland, Norman J.; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy; … - 2009
An increase over time in the proportion of young people obtaining a degree is likely to impact on the relative ability compositions (i) of graduates and non-graduates and (ii) across graduates with different classes of degree award. In a signalling framework, we examine the implications of this...
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A question of degree : the effects of degree class on labor market outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2013
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
effect and provide empirical support for our theory. …
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Changes in education, wage inequality and working hours over time
Davoine, Thomas; Mankart, Jochen - 2017
The US skill premium and college enrollment have increased substantially over the past few decades. In addition, while low-wage earners worked more than highwage earners in 1970, the opposite was true in 2000. We show that a parsimonious neoclassical model featuring skill-biased technical...
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Higher education, performance pay, and the polarization of wages
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - 2021
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Dream jobs
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Ottaviano, … - 2020
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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle
Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left …-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household … data from the United States. We find countercyclical variance and procyclical skewness of persistent shocks. All shock …
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