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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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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
Dahl, Christian M. - 2011
to skills is higher under the more decentralized wage-setting systems. Using quantile regression, we also find that wages …
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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2014
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly ﾖ driven not only by...
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Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
Barth, Erling - 2009
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual output increase within-firm wage inequality, while group-based bonuses have minor effects on wage...
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Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Pencavel, John H. - 2020
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by … wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased, some contracts maintained relative wage differentials constant, some … maintained absolute differences in wages constant, others combined these two patterns, and some did not reveal an obvious pattern …
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Wage Differentials by Bargaining Regime in Spain (2002-2014) : An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
Ramos, Raul - 2019
cycle and the recent labour reform of 2012. The second objective of the study is to examine the impact on wages of an … labour reform. From the evidence obtained it may be concluded that, although the higher wages observed in company … be ruled out.With respect to the impact on wages of the absence of a collective agreement, the results suggest that this …
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their …
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Changes in Bargaining Status and Intra-Plant Wage Dispersion in Germany : A Case of (Almost) Plus Ça Change?
Addison, John T. - 2014
Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage inequality. This association holds more or less across-the-board, at least for broad swathes of recent history. That said, the exact contribution of deununionization is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049732
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Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare across-industry heterogeneity in rent-sharing...
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Wage Distributions by Bargaining Regime : Linked Employer-Employee Data Evidence from Germany
Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - 2021
wage brackets which would operate as minimum wages for different groups of workers …
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