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Lohnungleichheit – Gibt es eine Trendwende?

Möller, Joachim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 96 (2016) Sonderheft, pp. 38-44

Using a large panel microdata set for the time period 1992 to 2014, the paper analyses the long-run trends in German wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage...

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From creative destruction to human capital growth: Wage dispersion effects in Finland

Piekkola, Hannu - 2002

In Finland the shifts in compensation have been of a similar kind compared to those in the US, but moderate with increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive and productive worker wages and an increasing share of non-production workers. In the deep...

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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study

Grimm, Michael - 2004

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …

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Identifying the value of teamwork: Application to professional tennis

Devereux, Kevin - 2018

Do workers vary in their ability to work with others? I compare a given worker's productivity in solitary production to their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond that given by general skills. The identifying...

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

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Women in top incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974-2013

Boschini, Anne; Gunnarsson, Kristin; Roine, Jesper - 2018

Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974-2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has steadily...

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Does the German minimum wage help low income households? Evidence from observed outcomes and the simulation of potential effects

Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019

descriptive ex-post evidence on the distributional implications of the German minimum wage on wages and disposable household … incomes as well as some underlying mechanisms. We analyze various measures of hourly wage and disposable household income … simulation evidence the minimum wage proves to be an ineffective tool for the redistribution of disposable household incomes …

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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? Revisiting the social affinity hypothesis

Luebker, Malte - 2019

Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...

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