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Disentangling pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : the case of Germany
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413818
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Pay and productivity in a corporatist economy : evidence from Austria
Fuess, Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
efficiency benefit of corporatism. For laborers in manufacturing, we find that wage hikes result in productivity gains. Managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001545528
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001830011
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Income inequality and saving
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Attar, Mayssun el - 2012
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681548
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Human capital accumulation, education and earnings inequality
Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402346
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Labour market institutions and the personal distribution of income in the OECD
Checchi, Daniele (contributor);  … - 2005
We examine what determines differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, the labour share, and the wage differential are all functions of labour market institutions. Next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003035409
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Innocent bystanders? : monetary policy and inequality in the US
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Küng, Lorenz; … - 2012
We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548662
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Examining the impact of macro-economic conditions on income inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2001
and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403817
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Inflation adjustment and labour market structures : evidence from a multi-country study
Nunziata, Luca (contributor);  … - 2005
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002658106
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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014
This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...
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