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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377364
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764612
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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2013
In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293108
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Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited
Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen A.; Pena-Boquete, … - 2015
We analyse the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half power and no-power couples within Australia. We explicitly allow for potential correlation of these movements with local labour market features. Our results support the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288181
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The UK's Productivity Puzzle
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2015
The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity is within sector and within firm before presenting new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288222
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Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Krüger, Miriam; … - 2015
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345377
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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments: Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Bell, Clive; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed and analyzed. The insights yielded by the model are then used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401620
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Kaushal, Neeraj; Lu, Yao; Denier, Nicole; Wang, Julia … - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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