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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

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Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968

bjorklund, anders; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Jäntti, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the...

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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men’s upward income mobility...

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Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality

Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

and high-school graduates, ii) the rise in the college-premium, iii) the rise in within wage inequality iv) the … differential behavior of the between and within wage inequality in the 60s and 70s and, v) the decline of the wage at the first …

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …

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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...

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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...

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Wage Dispersion in a Partially Unionized Labor Force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014

inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … direct attention to the fundamental role of establishment-level pay setting and economic adjustments in earnings inequality. …

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