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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141699
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959051
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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession : Evidence from Micro Data
Verdugo, Gregory - 2015
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in large part, the effect of changes in the composition of the labour force related to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012041
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The Over-Education Wage Penalty Among Phd Holders : A European Perspective
Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
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Organisational Gender Pay Gaps in the UK : What Happened Post-Transparency?
Jones, Melanie K.; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022
Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the established literature on the gender pay gap based...
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277
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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general … patterns of overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316738
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The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries
Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2021
Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained … comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318042