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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth : Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality

Hornbeck, Richard - 2019

We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...

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The Gender Pay Gap in Ireland from Austerity Through Recovery

Doorley, Karina; Privalko, Ivan; Russell, Helen; Tuda, Dora - 2021

This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage...

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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages

Gomes, Pedro - 2010

I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...

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Man-Cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Bredemeier, Christian - 2015

In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions : Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Busch, Anne - 2011

Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …

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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2011

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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