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The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature … individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946254
research gap by investigating the structure of high labour incomes in Germany. By revealing the determinants of high incomes by … ; theory of justice … diese Forschungslücke verkleinern, indem wir die Struktur hoher Arbeitseinkommen in Deutschland untersuchen. Durch die …
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Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased....
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Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052807
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 examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect … data from Germany we confirm the theoretically predicted signs for both risks and their interaction effect. …
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This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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Wage dynamics is closely intertwined with job flows. However, composition effects associated to the different sizes and characteristics of workers entering/ exiting into/from employment that may blur the "true" underlying wage growth, are not typically accounted for. In this paper, we take these...
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