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Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration : BHP 1887 - 2012
Pottenger, Mike; Leigh, Andrew - 2013
Outside the US, little is known of long-run trends in executive compensation. We fill this gap by studying BHP, a resources giant that has long been one of the largest companies on the Australian stock market. From 1887 to 2013, trends in CEO and director remuneration (relative to average...
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130547
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Inter-industry wage differences and individual heterogeneity : how competitive is wage setting in the UK?
Carruth, Alan A.; Collier, Bill; Dickerson, Andrew P. - 1999 - Draft: December 1999
There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...
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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data
Ziegler, Lennart - 2021
This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583545
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Assessing the incidence and wage effects of overeducation among Italian graduates using a new measure for educational requirements
Cattani, Luca; Guidetti, Giovanni; Pedrini, Giulio - 2014
This paper investigates three dimensions of overeducation: incidence, impact on earnings and possible determinants. The analysis focuses on Italian graduates and refers to the cohort that graduated in 2007 using data from the AlmaLaurea survey on graduates' career paths. A new measure of...
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Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Spain
Anghel, Brindusa; Basso, Henrique S.; Bover, Olympia; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 351-387
This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … and wealth inequality, and studies how they have developed. The analysis shows less wage dispersion in Spain than in other … inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmid, Kai D.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1593-1635
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession, inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896465
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk : A Cross-Country Comparison
Bayer, Christian - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155588
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Asymmetries in Earnings, Employment and Wage Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
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