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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years …
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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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, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
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This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...
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We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on … the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 … 90th and 10th percentiles. The results point towards wage spillover effects up to the 30th percentile of the wage …
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top labour and capital incomes grew stronger between 1995 and 2005 in the top half of the wage and capital income … association of wage and capital incomes at the top is particularly striking for men, while women are largely under-represented in …
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This paper investigates how wage growth varies among Australian employees with different individual characteristics and … that after increasing between 2002 and 2007, wage growth had significantly slowed down post 2008, and particularly from … industry explain a large share of differences in wage growth between individuals, and these characteristics are more important …
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wage regressions) in a cross-national setting. Given the considerable variation of INR across surveys as well as the … cases only. Finally, regression results for wage equations based on observed ("complete case analysis") vs. all cases and …
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In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...
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In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savingsdecisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded bya combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution.Employees can also make tax-deferred...
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