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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...
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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
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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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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...
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Changes in working hours are driving earnings inequality
Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 32/34, pp. 195-201
According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly …
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution?
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich C.; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from −28.3% to −7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343107
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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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