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Does the sector experience affect the pay gap for temporary agency workers?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2011
temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278493
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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150629
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Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ?treatment groups? for estimating the impact of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262627
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Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262451
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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector
Arranz-Aperte, Laura; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees? and firms? participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period 1996-2000 we analyse individual and workplace characteristics that make firms employ profit sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262761
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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273751
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269884
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Wage mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262171
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Dual Returns to Experience
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Hospido, Laura; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2021
In this paper we study human capital accumulation and wage trajectories of young workers in a dual labor market. Using rich administrative data for Spain, we follow workers since labor market entry to measure experience accumulated under different contractual arrangements and relate it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658175