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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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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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Unemployment and subjective well-being

Suppa, Nicolai - 2021

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....

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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany

Nüß, Patrick - 2017

Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...

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Arbeitsmarktqualität und Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Zuwanderern in Deutschland : eine quantitative Analyse

Zwintz, Eric - 2000

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Changes in bargaining status and intra-plant wage dispersion in Germany : much ado about nothing?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2017

A number of studies have reported that union decline is associated with rising overall wage inequality, not least in … this potential source of rising inequality by examining intra-plant wage dispersion in the wake of establishments exiting … claims as to the importance of deunionization to wage inequality. …

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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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