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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33
Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort …
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
Guadalupe, Maria - 2021
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...
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Internationaler Handel, technologischer Fortschritt und Arbeitsmärkte
Engelmann, Sabine - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311329
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Brexit and labour market inequalities : potential spatial and occupational impacts
Davenport, Alexander; Levell, Peter - 2021
In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...
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Employment and distribution effects of the mnimum wage
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often...
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2003
The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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Wage Mobility : Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with minimum wages, employment protection, and collective...
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Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001 : Year, Age and Cohort Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan; Alessie, Rob - 2021
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980's and early 1990's and remained fairly constant in the second half of the 1990's....
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