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The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008

Verdugo, Gregory - 2014

Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was … upper tail wage inequality in France relative to other countries. Using a model with imperfect substitution between … wage inequality at the top of the distribution in France during this period is explained by the increase in the educational …

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Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?

Cette, Gilbert; Chouard, Valérie; Verdugo, Gregory - 2013

This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when …

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Directed sector and skill-specific technological change: The development of wages for the high and low skilled

Antony, Jürgen - 2003

This paper presents a dynamic two sector, two skill groups model of endogenous skill and sector specific technological change. The sectors refer to a high-tech” and a low-tech” sector of an economy. The direction of technological change is driven by market forces determined by the skill...

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Labor unions, unemployment, and inequality in an OLG-Model with heterogeneous agents

Kremer, Jana - 2001

As a consequence of falling relative demand for low skilled labor in the OECD, people with no or minor qualification experience a deterioration of their economic situation. While flexible labor markets have led to higher wage differentials in the USA, the major problem of most European countries...

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Native-immigrant wage differentials in Germany: Assimilation, discrimination, or human capital?

Lang, Günter - 2000

This study uses the concept of stochastic frontiers for analyzing the income disparity between ethnic groups in West Germany. Estimation of a potential rather than an average earnings function increases the explanatory power of the human capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination...

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Occupational mobility, occupation distance and specific human capital

Robinson, Chris - 2011

Measures of occupation distance based on underlying skill portfolios are constructed and used to contrast involuntary and total mobility. One component of total occupational mobility is voluntary mobility, including moves to higher job offers using the same skills, as well as promotions that may...

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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes

Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...

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Literacy traps: Society-wide education and individual skill premia

Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...

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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...

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The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2007

Using the Health and Retirement Survey and standard wage decomposition techniques, this paper finds that the difference in intermittent labor force participation between men and women accounts for 47 percent of the contribution to the wage gap of differences in observed characteristics. Not...

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