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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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This article analyses wage flexibility as a factor in the unemployment rate across 12 Euro Area countries. We use extensive evidence pertaining to the counter-cyclical behaviour of the labour income share ratio to estimate its equilibrium value in the long run. This measure is calculated using a...
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This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 European Structure of Earnings Survey. Findings show the existence of significant inter-industry...
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Past evidence on the incidence of payroll tax subsidies on employment and wages for disadvantaged workers has been … incidence of wage subsidies on full-time manual workers and pre-tax wages. Using a number of straightforward evaluation … estimators we find that employment subsidies increased full-time manual employment and pre-tax wages. Moreover, we find that …
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capturing variability in cohort mortality curves. Poisson variation in mortality data is included in the model estimation using … the Kalman filter through the measurement equation. We consider models incorporating factor dependence to capture the …
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. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …
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advanced Europe, where wages are more closely related to inflation and inflation expectations in the short run, implying …Wage rises have remained stubbornly low in advanced Europe in recent years, but, at the same time, newer EU members are … greater inertia in nominal wage rises in advanced Europe. In the years after the global crisis, this inertia contributed to …
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of years of schooling and the experience to the wages, was obtained by application of the system of Seemingly Unrelated …
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In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
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-tically significant correlation between concentration and between-firm wage inequality, driven by increases in market shares and wages in …
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