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We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences in the wage distributions. The raw wage differential between public and private sector is positive...
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To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
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with respect to productivity, we demonstrate that productivity growth affects the labour share in the long run due to … frictional growth (that is, the interplay of wage dynamics and productivity growth). In the light of this result, we consider a … (or, equivalently, the wage-productivity gap) deserves the attention of policy makers …
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This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …
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In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
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We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using … persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within …-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are …
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We investigate whether workers reallocate up firm productivity and wage job ladders, and the cyclicality of this … process. We document that productivity is a better measure of the job ladder than the average wage, since high productivity … cycle differs between the firm wage and productivity ladders. In recessions, employment decreases more in low than in high …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
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