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While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
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Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By exploiting the panel structure of the CPS, we show that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely...
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This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us for the first time to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that...
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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 …
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, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
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