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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992 : A Semiparametric Approach
DiNardo, John E.; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021
This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density methods to appropriately 'reweighted' samples. The procedure...
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Educational Opportunity and Income Inequality
Willen, Paul; Hendel, Igal; Shapiro, Joel - 2021
Affordable higher education is, and has been, a key element of social policy in the United States with broad bipartisan support. Financial aid has substantially increased the number of people who complete university - generally thought to be a good thing. We show, however, that making education...
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2010
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152554
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126042
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030070
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David - 2014
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models,...
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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory
Card, David; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Heining, Joerg; Kline, … - 2021
We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...
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Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher Us Wage Inequality?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021
Using microdata from the 1994-6 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), we examine the role of cognitive skills in explaining higher wage inequality in the US. We find that while the greater dispersion of cognitive test scores in the US plays a part in explaining higher US wage inequality,...
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Firming Up Inequality
Song, Jae; Price, David; Guvenen, Fatih; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2021
Earnings inequality in the United States has increased rapidly over the last three decades, but little is known about the role of firms in this trend. For example, how much of the rise in earnings inequality can be attributed to rising dispersion between firms in the average wages they pay, and...
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