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Will it be a shecession? : the unintended influence of working from home on the gender wage gap related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2021 - Version: January 2021
Working from home (WFH) has become a key factor during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries that have implemented severe social distancing measures. This paper investigates the potential influence of the working from home attitude of occupations on the gender wage gap (GWG) reported by...
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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019
Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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The nativity wealth gap in Europe : a matching approach
Ferrari, Irene - 2019
This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019 - This version: 17 May 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
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More insecure and less paid? : the effect of perceived job insecurity on wage distribution
Scicchitano, Sergio; Biagetti, Marco; Chirumbolo, Antonio - 2018
This article employs a Counterfactual Decomposition Analysis (CDA) using both a semi-parametric and a non-parametric method to examine the pay gap, over the entire wage distribution, between secure and insecure workers on the basis of perceived job insecurity. Using the 2015 INAPP Survey on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163060
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023
Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched...
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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data
Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020
This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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