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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor …
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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap
Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To this end, we combine rich administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of the Brazilian labor market. Our results imply that the minimum wage has far-reaching...
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An Empirical Framework For Matching With Imperfect Competition
Chan, Mons; Kroft, Kory; Mattana, Elena; Mourifié, Ismael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper builds, identifies and estimates a model of the labor market that features strategic interactions in wage setting and two-sided heterogeneity in order to shed light on the sources of wage inequality. We provide a tractable characterization of the model equilibrium and demonstrate its...
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Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Deb, Rahul; Renou, Ludovic - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize the conditions under which the wage distributions for two groups are consistent with a general model of statistical discrimination. We adapt this theoretical characterization to develop a novel empirical test, the rejection of which we interpret as evidence of taste-based...
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity …
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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
quantify the aggregate and distributional effects of spatial frictions that hinder worker mobility across regions in Germany … East and West Germany, especially due to the limited ability of workers to obtain job offers from more distant regions …. Despite the large real wage gap between East and West of Germany, removing the spatial frictions leads, in equilibrium, to …
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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany …
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Seniority
Kang, Dongik; Kimball, Miles S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the optimal wage structure of a firm with imperfect monitoring of worker effort. We find that when firms can commit to (implicit) long-term contracts, imperfect monitoring leads to optimal wage profiles that reflect worker seniority. We provide a precise measure of seniority...
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