We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks …-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage … shocks have greater relevance. Progressive taxation strongly attenuates cross-sectional earnings risk, its life …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …

market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations … formation of reservation wages. Building on the theoretical reasoning of compensating differentials proposing that the labor … can be explained by individuals anticipating this form of risk compensation. Relying on a unique survey on German high …

regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i ….e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately capture spatial processes. In addition, the nonstationarity of wages and … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …

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 …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of … interruptions increased for high-income mothers. Nevertheless, we find a positive long-run effect on earnings for mothers in this …