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Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms : the Italian case

Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1637-1667

This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...

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Experience and worker flows

Gorry, Aspen - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 225-255

This paper studies the role of worker learning in a labor market where workers have incomplete information about the quality of their employment match. The amount of information about the quality of a new match depends on a worker’s past job experience. Allowing workers to learn from...

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The evolution of the earnings distribution in a volatile economy : evidence from Argentina

Blanco, Andres; Diaz de Astarloa, Bernardo; Drenik, Andres - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1361-1403

This paper studies earnings inequality and dynamics in Argentina between 1996 and 2015. Following the 2001–2002 crisis, the Argentine economy transitioned from a low‐ to a high‐inflation regime, while collective bargaining and the minimum wage gained influence. This transition was...

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Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms

Bowlus, Audra J.; Bonenfant, Émilien Gouin; Liu, Huju; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1447-1491

This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking individual tax filers to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the...

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Inequality, income dynamics, and worker transitions : the case of Mexico

Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros Zurita, … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1669-1705

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005-2019. The analysis is based on a nonparametric approach and is focused primarily on the properties of the distribution of earnings changes. We...

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Earnings dynamics and its intergenerational transmission : evidence from Norway

Halvorsen, Elin; Ozkan, Serdar; Salgado, Sergio - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1707-1746

Using administrative data, we provide an extensive characterization of labor earnings dynamics in Norway. Some of our findings are as follows: (i) Norway has not been immune to the increase in top earnings inequality seen in other countries, (ii) the earnings distribution compresses in the...

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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016

Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...

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U.S. long-term earnings outcomes by sex, race, ethnicity, and place of birth

McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M.; Janicki, Hubert P. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1879-1945

This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer‐Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure files, we produce a uniform set of...

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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