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systematically worsened with the rise of the internet and its intermediaries. Evidence on changing distributions of income is …
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We examine how within-firm skill premia-wage differentials associated with jobs involving different skill requirements-vary both across firms and over time. Our firm-level results mirror patterns found in aggregate wage trends, except that we find them with regard to increases in firm size. In...
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, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … the other three countries. In Germany, fixed-termworkers are conspicuously badly paid compared to fixed-term workers in … in Britain and Germany. …
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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Germany is one of the several countries in Europe that have opened its borders to immigrants for many years. The … admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the … immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational …
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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...
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This paper finds that returns to computer use do not vary with the intensity of computer use. This is evidence against the productivity interpretation of these returns and supports the view that returns to computer use can be attributed tounobserved heterogeneity.
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