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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021
I study how labour market power affects firm wage differences using German manufacturing sector firm-level data (1995-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514882
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2021 - This draft: May 18, 2021
I study how labour market power affects firm wage differences using German manufacturing sector firm-level data (1995-2016). In past decades, labour market power increasingly moderated rising between-firm wage inequality. This is becausehigh-paying firms possess high and increasing labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514890
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2020
This study investigates how labour market power shapes between-firm wage differences using German manufacturing sector data from 1995 to 2016. Over time, firm- and employee-side labour market power, defined as the difference between wages and marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261228
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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality
Mertens, Matthias - 2020
This study investigates how labour market power shapes between-firm wage differences using German manufacturing sector data from 1995 to 2016. Over time, firm- and employee-side labour market power, defined as the difference between wages and marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261403
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Labor market competition and inequality
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2023
Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444069
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Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption : Wage Inequality Matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230630
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The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution
Callan, Tim - 2010
An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large proportion) as fiscal deficits soar. What are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141768
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Employment and distribution effects of the mnimum wage
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2012
inequality ; monopsony ; efficiency wage ; over-education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504652
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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico
Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023
developed countries and with the emerging literature on monopsony power, we first show that a higher level of concentration is … a countervailing role against monopsony power, as in highly-unionized sectors, the effect of higher concentration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455470
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The lifetime earnings premium in the public sector : the view from Europe
Dickson, Matt; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2014
In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between public and private sectors for five European countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350829