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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy : the case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
by minimum wages, without which we expect wage growth there would have resembled the weaker growth of the middle of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216449
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Labor heterogeneity, inequality and institutional change
Skott, Peter - 2010
US earnings inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s, and the prospect of a reversal depends on what caused the trend. The standard explanation emphasizes skill-biased technical change. This paper briefly considers some aggregation issues and then proceeds to outline two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758088
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We review the motivations for minimum wages and the changes and analyse … how they have affected workers outcomes. We find that the minimum wage now strongly determines the wages of teenage … minimum wage workers are broadly spread across the household income distribution, we conclude that minimum wages are largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517238
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Minimum wages and wage compression in Belgian industries
Vandekerckhove, Sem; Desiere, Sam; Lenaerts, Karolien - 2020
Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity … issues. We use a large longitudinal dataset and sectoral minimum wage variation to analyse trends in minimum wages and wage …’s representatives prefer increasing lower wages over higher wages. This paper explores several hypotheses that could explain this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243787
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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock : the distributional consequences of COVID-19
Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2020
Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226071
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Firms' wage structures, workers' fairness perceptions, job satisfaction and turnover intentions : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019
structure and the positions of workers within it: (a) workers' own absolute wages, (b) workers' conditional internal reference … wages within firms, (c) the conditional wage dispersion in firms, and (d) workers' conditional external reference wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140308
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821427
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844182
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Borrowing constraints, search, and life-cycle inequality
Griffy, Benjamin - 2017 - This Version: Nov. 24th, 2017
This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model with labor market search and endogenous human capital accumulation. I first show that following an unemployment spell, likely-constrained workers in the Survey of Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963363
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The Idiosyncratic Impact of an Aggregate Shock : The Distributional Consequences of COVID-19
Benzeval, Michaela - 2020
Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Understanding Society panel survey who have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832434