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Capital deepening and wage differentials: Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried; Leonardi, Marco - 2006
in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled …. Instead in the US, where wage-compressing institutions are weaker, firms invest more in high-skilled workers. We provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267684
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Sources of earnings instability: estimates from an on-the-job search model of the U.S. labor market
Flabbi, Luca; Leonardi, Marco - 2008
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268696
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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269763
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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976873
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Sources of earnings instability : estimates from an on-the-job search model of the U.S. labor market
Flabbi, Luca (contributor); Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2008
Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666471
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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2006
in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled …. Instead in the US, where wage-compressing institutions are weaker, firms invest more in high-skilled workers. We provide … industries. -- capital deepening ; skill premium ; wage floors ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304679
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Who pays for it?: the heterogeneous wage effects of employment protection legislation
Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - 2010
Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on workers' individual wages in a quasi-experimental setting, exploiting a reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304316