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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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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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Heterogeneous labor earning shock process in finite horizon

Rahman, Md. Arifur - 2017

This paper investigates the importance of heterogeneity in the labor earning shock processes. We analyze the earning shock process for both male and female workers in several countries. We argue that unlike time series analysis, in a life cycle model the forecasting horizon is finite and in...

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Gender-differentiated effects of parenthood on earnings : understanding cross-national variation in the motherhood penalty and fatherhood bonus

Lundberg, Ian - 2012

Although mothers are increasingly joining the labor force, employers continue to pay mothers less than non-mothers and fathers more than non-fathers. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), this paper investigates the influence of parental status on the incomes of men and women in...

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Managers and productivity differences

Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015 - Preliminary

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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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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Eugenics of inequality : UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974 - 2010

Cooke, Lynn P. - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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Immigration in the EU : an empirical analysis of the impact of immigration on the German labor market

DeVeaux, Frederick - 2014

immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent … and decrease wages of incumbent foreigners by about 9 percent. Across the different model specifications the negative …

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The effects of incomplete employee wage information : a cross-country analysis

Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2005 - This Revision: August 2005

countries that strongly support unemployment insurance (UI) receive wages closer to their potential, so that doubling UI … decreases incomplete information and results in 5% higher wages. A more dense population reduces search costs leading to less … information and higher wages. Finally, we find that foreign worker inflows increase incomplete information, and at the same time …

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Global value chains and wages : international evidence from linked worker-industry data

Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2016

Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry linkages measure accounting for task heterogeneity...

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