Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...

Auf kleinräumiger Ebene lässt sich der Betreuungsausbau aus zwei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven betrachten. Entweder kann man der Frage nachgehen, wie stark in den Kommunen an dieser Stelle investiert wurde und die Anstiege bei den Platzzahlen vergleichen, oder man kann die regionalen...

Auf kleinräumiger Ebene lässt sich der Betreuungsausbau aus zwei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven betrachten. Entweder kann man der Frage nachgehen, wie stark in den Kommunen an dieser Stelle investiert wurde und die Anstiege bei den Platzzahlen vergleichen, oder man kann die regionalen...

In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an "empirical law of economics" - the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders...

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and...

Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....