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Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages

Hospido, Laura - 2010

standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive model with multiple individual fixed effects is … proposed. The expression for a modified likelihood function is obtained for estimation and inference in a fixed-T context …. Using a bias-corrected likelihood approach makes it possible to reduce the estimation bias to a term of order 1/Tﾲ. The …

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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010

, and the penalty is most negative among the lowest (conditional) wages. On the other hand, women in Britain experience … lower wages, but the most significant results are found for British workers emigrating from non-English speaking countries …

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences

Das, Tirthatanmoy - 2017

This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....

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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile M. - 2021

general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the model's key parameters show that the rising management premium is …

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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income

Redmond, Paul - 2020

the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …

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How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution : International Analyses

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2006

decile, and in particular increases in the U.S. at higher deciles. Minimum wages in the U.S. appear to compress earnings at …

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Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2021

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France

Frémeaux, Nicolas - 2017

inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative …

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages : Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bockerman, Petri - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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