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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
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Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...
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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido (contributor); Anger, Silke (contributor) - 2008
' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external … ; reciprocity ; wages …
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Wage risk and portfolio choice : the role of correlated returns
König, Johannes; Longmuir, Maximilian - 2021
the residual variance of wages by one standard deviation implies a reduction of the financial portfolio share by 3 …
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