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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2014
household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
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My wage is unfair! : just a feeling or comparison with peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2013
wages than fairly paid individuals with identical characteristics. -- Fairness ; Wages … household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid … individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715233
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My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?
Schneck, Stefan - 2013
household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid … individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound … wages than fairly paid individuals with identical characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160353
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The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers’ Earnings in Canada
Beach, Charles M. - 2010
This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982 1997. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation in earnings across workers and time into a long-run inequality component between workers and an average earnings instability component...
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On the Impact of Transparent Wage Distributions and Horizontal Inequity Aversion in an Experimental Labor Market
Hagemann, Petra - 2007
, agents are not informed about their co-workers' wages and efforts, but in the second treatment they are. Our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728738
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor 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...
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300009
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Reallöhne in Deutschland über mehrere Jahre rückläufig
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 33, pp. 550-560
Die Netto-Reallöhne sind in Deutschland seit Anfang der 90er Jahre kaum gestiegen. Von 2004 bis 2008 gingen sie sogar zurück, eine in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik einmalige Entwicklung, denn nie zuvor ging ein durchaus kräftiges Wirtschaftswachstum mit einer Senkung der realen...
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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality
Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262516
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269884