-cycle earnings, occupational mobility and unemployment is predominantly driven by skills acquired prior to labor market entry or by … heterogeneity and permanent shocks to skills. I find that a large fraction of life-cycle income inequality is driven by match … dynamics and investigate if recent increases in residual inequality are caused by an increase of the variances of permanent …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

Einwanderungsverhinderungspolitik anstatt Einwanderung zu regeln, zugestalten und die Integration von Einwanderern zu fördern.Unter der Prämisse, daß … immigration and to foster the integrationof immigrants.Under the premise Germany could learn from the immigration and integration …

This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in …, education and fertility on mobility. I find that the estimateof the intergenerational elasticity in earnings is 0.847. The …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it … might first appear. The equilibrium tax rate can be not only positive but also increasing in the degree of mobility of …

occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … restructuring by foreigner investors. Additional training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings …, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fields increases all types of worker mobility and has …