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Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … will only have a minor impact on inequality among households with at least one minimum-wage worker. Low wage earners are …
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. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage …
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. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112787
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524370
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526975
This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991)....
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Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit der Lohnstruktur auf deutschen Arbeitsmärkten beschäftigen. Die Analysen nutzen neben … deutliche Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West sowie zwischen großen und kleinen Unternehmen hervor. -- Lohnstruktur …
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271359