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Myth or fact? The beauty premium across the wage distribution in Germany
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - In: Economics Letters 129 (2015) C, pp. 29-34
We allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution using a technique traditionally used in the finance literature. We find an average beauty premium of 2%–4% for women, which is concentrated at the bottom of the wage distribution. The average beauty premium...
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Beauty and the beast in the labor market: Evidence from a distribution regression approach
Karina, DOORLEY; Eva, SIERMINSKA - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution, as traditional methods confound opposing effects. Counterfactual wage distributions constructed using distribution regression,show that unattractive women are more likely to...
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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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A Critique of the Global Wage System
Köhler, Gernot - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2006) 2, pp. 163-173
It is widely believed that international wage differences are a result of international productivity differences. That belief has been criticized by various economists for the differential in wages being much higher than in productivity. Another criticism has been that productivity increases in...
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Review of Meritocracy and Economic Inequality Edited by Kenneth Arrow, Sameul Bowles, and Steven Durlaf
Brown, Charles - In: Journal of Economic Literature 39 (2001) 1, pp. 93-104
The twelve essays in this volume deal with the definition of meritocracy and equality of opportunity, the causes and consequences of intelligence, schooling and inequality, and equal-opportunity policy options. They emphasize the importance of education and race, relative to IQ. Collectively,...
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After …
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The returns to occupational foreign language use: Evidence from Germany
Stöhr, Tobias - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 86-98
This paper analyzes the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After …
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Prices and Productivity: A France-Germany Comparison
Nayman, Laurence - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013
replicated in the aggregate value added prices. The latter have been rising more steeply in France than in Germany, and this is … larger than the hourly labour productivity. In Germany, with falling unit labour costs over the 2005-2007 years in the …
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Verbunden über Generationen: Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Deutschland. Anhand der Daten des deutschen sozioökonomischen Panels ist es möglich, sowohl Vater-Sohn als auch Vater …-Tochter Paare von 0,2. Das bedeutet, in Deutschland werden im Durchschnitt 17 % bzw. 20 % des elterlichen Einkommensvorteils bzw … belegen für Deutschland ein hohes Maß an intergenerationaler Mobilität. …
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