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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294700
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Wage mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa - 2002
Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318482
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Changes in earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Disentangling the forces behind pro-poor change in labour markets
Zepeda, Eduardo; Alarcon, Diana; Soares, Fábio Veras; … - 2009
Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293299
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297934
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016
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Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden
Dahlberg, Susanne; Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2003
The cohort crowding literature suggests that the size of one's generation, or cohort, has repercussions on the level and shape of one's earnings profile. We estimate cohort size effects on earnings profiles and further assess whether these profiles are affected by the individuals. position in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321635
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How Unification and Immigration Affected the German Income Distribution
Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes; Wagner, Gert G. - In: European Economic Review 43 (1999) 4–6, pp. 867-878
The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad … and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324282
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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498