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Are immigrants paid less for education?
Anastassova, Lubomira - 2010
This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...
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German stagnation vs. Swedish progression: Gender wage gaps in comparison, 1960-2006
Gärtner, Svenja - 2013
This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden … traditions penetrate institutional settings and ensnare Germany in a cultural trap with regard to gender equality. While Sweden … has moved to a two-earner model, German society expects mothers to stay at home. The micro analysis shows that family …
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Women in the top of the income distribution: What can we learn from LIS-data?
Bobilev, Roman; Boschini, Anne; Roine, Jesper - 2019
children are positively associated with being in top income groups for men, but negatively associated for women. However, time …
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The motherhood wage penalty: A varieties of capitalism approach
Lundquist, Erik; Eklööf, Hanna - 2017
mothers with young children and females without children. The second step of the analysis entails four different measures with … relevance to both the institutional framework and our applied gender focus. We find that when nations exhibit features in line … terms compared to "liberal market economies." The results add valuable insight to the limited gender literature within the …
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Are Parents More Likely to Be Unemployed? A Study of Nine Western Democracies
Stjärnfäldt, Richard - 2016
The relation between parenthood and market work is an established field of study in demography. This thesis specifically focuses on the relation between parenthood and unemployment, the involuntary absence of work, in a cross sectional study of nine western democracies. The studied countries are...
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Managers and productivity differences
Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015
We document that mean earnings of managers grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle for a group of high-income countries. Furthermore, we find that the growth of earnings for managers (relative to non managers) is positively correlated with output per worker across these countries....
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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...
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Optimal labor income taxation: The role of the skill distribution
Miao, Dingquan - 2022
I analyze the role of the distribution of skills in shaping optimal nonlinear income tax schedules. I use theoretical skill distributions as well as empirical skill distributions for 14 OECD countries. I find that a more dispersed log-normal skill distribution implies a more progressive optimal...
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Education, Economic Growth and Personal Income Inequality across (Rich) Countries
Rehme, Günther - 2002
This paper offers a supply-side explanation of the variation in long-run growth and inequality across countries. In the model education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More human capital may increase or decrease growth but also measured inequality. In contrast to some recent...
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