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Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker and firm quality measures obtained from an AKM...

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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings : a study of British women 1975 - 2001

Connolly, Sara (contributor); Gregory, Mary (contributor) - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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Return migration, wage differentials, and the optimal migration duration

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in the host country depends also on the migration duration. This paper analyses optimal migration...

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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015

This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Permanent and transitory wage inequality of British men 1975-2001 : year, age and cohort effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Which ladder to climb? : decomposing life cycle wage dynamics

Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2019

Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of jobs: collections of tasks and duties defined by...

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The Black-white lifetime earnings gap

Karger, Ezra; Wray, Anthony - 2024

The average white male born in 1900 earned 2.6 times more labor income over their lifetime than the average Black male. This gap is nearly twice as large as the more commonly studied cross-sectional Black-white earnings gap because 48% of Black males born in 1900 died before the age of 30 as...

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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry

Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …

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