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techniques, we find that detailed measures of these factors are all significantly associated with higher wages. Popularity …. Der Faktor Popularität wirkt sich am stärksten auf das rechte Ende der Einkommensverteilung aus, die Macht des …
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impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …
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employment, we also study the impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector …
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Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
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We investigate the cyclicality of real wages and income using individual data for the UK over the 1991-2008 period. By … recessions than in expansions for top-incomes. We also show that real wages and income are roughly a cyclical for low wage and …
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decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a … explain changes in the firm wage premium. The rising dispersion in worker-specific wages can be attributed to increasing skill …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …
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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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Idiosyncratic labor incomes are typically modeled either by stochastic processes with heterogeneous income profiles (HIPs) or restricted income profiles (RIPs). The HIP assumes that individual labor income grows deterministically at an unobserved rate and contains a persistent but stationary...
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monthly frequency of regular wage adjustments almost doubled, while the distribution of changes in regular wages morphed from …
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limited network connections. The model implies that essentially similar workers can have markedly different wages and further … that the inequality of wages is partly explained by variations in the sizes of workers' networks. Our results indicate that … wages. We also show that reasonable differences in the average number of links between blacks and whites can explain the …
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