We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality …

We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on … the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 … 90th and 10th percentiles. The results point towards wage spillover effects up to the 30th percentile of the wage …

This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and … that after increasing between 2002 and 2007, wage growth had significantly slowed down post 2008, and particularly from … industry explain a large share of differences in wage growth between individuals, and these characteristics are more important …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

wage regressions) in a cross-national setting. Given the considerable variation of INR across surveys as well as the … cases only. Finally, regression results for wage equations based on observed ("complete case analysis") vs. all cases and …