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Labour market institutions and income inequality

Checchi, Daniele (contributor); … - 2008

The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on...

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The male marriage wage premium in cross-national perspective

Hoon, Sean de; Keizer, Renske; Dykstra, Pearl - 2015

Using data from 29 countries from the Luxemburg Income Study, we demonstrate that married men earn on average 7% more than unmarried men. Unmarried men would have to work 43 hours per week in order to earn the same as married men working 40 hours. We find substantial cross-national variation: in...

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Comparing the immigrant-native pay gap : a novel evidence from home and host countries

Cupák, Andrej; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2021

We estimate wage differentials between foreign- and native-born workers across developed and developing economies. We leverage internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that...

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Occupational attainment in Germany and the United States 2000-2016 : [the role of gender and immigration status]

Park, Paige N. - 2022

occupational segregation from 2000 to 2016 in Germany and the United States among immigrant and nativeborn parents. Multinomial … inequality in the workforce, Germany fares worse than the US in their gendered occupational outcomes overall. While the gap … between mothers’ and fathers’ probabilities of employment in the highest status jobs is shrinking over time in Germany …

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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 … concerns (e.g., marriage and motherhood) decrease female income in Germany to a far greater extent than do such factors in …

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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment : routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS

Mahutga, Matthew C.; Curran, Michaela; Roberts, Anthony - 2018

Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization and technological change - relatively scarce. This...

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Does immigration affect native's labor market outcomes in Germany?

Tas, Dilan; Kastrat, Merima - 2019

Germany is one of the several countries in Europe that have opened its borders to immigrants for many years. The … admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the … immigration on natives' hourly wages and employment was examined, by using microdata for Germany. Native workers' educational …

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Creators' income situation in the digital age

Cuntz, Alexander - 2018

systematically worsened with the rise of the internet and its intermediaries. Evidence on changing distributions of income is …

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The prevalence of welfare state policies and gender socioeconomic inequality : a comparative analysis

Mandel, Hadas (contributor); Semyonov, Moshe (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies : a comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium

Roberts, Anthony; Kwon, Roy - 2021

Prior country case studies show substantial wage premiums in the financial sector contributes to growth of top incomes and wage inequality in a select group of advanced economies. However, while comparative studies show financialization exerts heterogenous effects on wage inequality across...

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