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Wage inequality in the United States has risen dramatically over the past several decades, prompting scholars to develop a number of theoretical accounts for the upward trend. This study takes an organizational approach to examine how changes in the firm-size wage effect (FSWE) — a phenomenon...
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Does mobile broadband subscription rates have a positive effect on closing the earnings gap? Examining United States county level data, higher rates of mobile broadband subscription lead to reductions in the earnings gini coefficient. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in mobile...
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discussion of the theoretical implications of the model, it is then applied to Germany’s refugee immigration situation in 2015 …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …
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We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...
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We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...
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age Canadians (those with and without paid employment), what are the inequality trends. We find that earnings inequality … the changing employment/population ratio and inequality trends among employed workers on overall earnings inequality among … real hourly wages …
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employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
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, age and wages were positively related throughout working life, but more recently older workers' wages have been lower than … those of middle-aged workers. The relationship between education and wages was weak in 1988 but strengthened rapidly …
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1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
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