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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246655
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250120
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but …' offshoring decisions and yields two new channels by which offshoring affects wage inequality. Chapter 3 studies the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital
Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392588
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2016
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006606
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058310
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Shocking Germany : a spatial analysis of German regional labor markets
Krebs, Oliver - 2018
This paper quantifies the surprisingly large heterogeneity of real income and employment effects across German counties in response to local productivity shocks. Using a quantitative model with imperfect mobility and sector-specific labor market frictions together with an outstanding data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936726
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Labor demand response to labor supply incentives : lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform
Galassi, Gabriela - 2021 - Last updated: March 29, 2021
This paper analyzes how firms respond to changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers and how, through equilibrium effects, such policies also affect non-targeted, high-earning workers. I explore establishment-level outcomes around Germany's 2003 Mini-Job Reform, which entailed a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493308
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500461
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Outsourcing potentials and international tradability of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data
Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2013
We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752311