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heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application where hedonic models have been most successful at clarifying … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …
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establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …
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Transfers from parents-either in the form of gifts or inheritances-have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income, government...
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average by 5%. They also indicate that productivity gains associated to upstreamness are shared almost equally between wages … and profits. However, upstreamness is found to be more beneficial for workers' wages in less competitive environments …
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We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employer-employee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and employment gains compared to displaced stayers. The results show that job displacement increases the...
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This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched … interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender wage gap. The empirical findings show that individual compensation is …, individual and firms' characteristics, industry wage differentials and endogeneity of profits. Wage-profit elasticity is found to …
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The recent literature has argued for high concentration of earnings, differences in rates of return on assets and bequests as potential determinants of the high level of wealth concentration in the US. Analyzing the joint distribution of earnings, capital income and net worth, we find evidence...
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This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably...
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In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom...
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wages are mixed …
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