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Wage and earnings inequality between and within occupations : the role of labor supply
Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Kambourov, Gueorgui; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 145 (2024), pp. 1-14
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Wages, employment, distribution, and growth
Heise, Arne (contributor); Truger, Achim (contributor);  … - 2006
This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play.
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Scrutinising polarisation : patterns and consequences of occupational transformation in the Swedish labour market
Berglund, Tomas (ed.); Eriksson, Ylva Ulfsdotter (ed.) - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046770
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170860
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Occupational choice and matching in the labor market
Mak, Eric; Siow, Aloysius - 2017
Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model generates occupation earnings distributions which are right skewed, have firm fixed effects, and large changes in aggregate earnings inequality without significant changes in within...
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365755
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Three Essays in Wage Determination and Labor Market Inequality
Cullen, Zoe B. - 2016
for both wages and labor supply. We combine these online platform data with a field experiment to show that, with few … shows that when pay is unequal, workers strategically use information about co-worker pay to negotiate higher wages that can … or compressing pay. A profit maximizing employer may optimally equalize wages ex-ante in equilibrium. An important …
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940000
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694689
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Wage assimilation of foreigners : which factors close the gap? : evidence from Germany
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 4, pp. 677-701
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