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Myth or fact? : the beauty premium across the wage distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012
. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559134
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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men in Luxembourg, 1988 - 2004 : evidence from administrative data
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2010
Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an … extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg’s growth in … Luxembourg are worst off both in terms of their relative wage and in terms of their opportunity of improving their relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976945
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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2009
analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824215
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248144
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Behind every high earning man is a conscientious woman : a study of the impact of spousal personality on wages
Averett, Susan; Bansak, Cynthia; Smith, Julie K. - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several of the big five personality characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898884
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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018
This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871907
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Who makes it to the top? : differential rewards to personality across gender and occupation in the UK
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2024
This study tests whether personality traits are legitimately rewarded in the labour market or whether there are differing rewards across gender that cannot be explained with productivity. We investigate if personality traits affect the likelihood of making it to the top income quintile within an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463253
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Ethnic specialization and earnings inequality : why being a minority hurts but being a big minority hurts more
Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006
Social interaction is an important vehicle of human capital acquisition and its efficiency decreases in social distance. In this paper I establish that these two premises, given the socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups, explain the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301666