Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 11,607
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823354
Cover Image
Variable Pay Systems : Collective Bargaining and Wage Inequality in Six Different European Countries
Garcia-Hernandez, Rosa - 2016
Variable Pay Systems or Pay for performance suppose variable additional components to regular wages connected, for example, with the evolution of the firm objectives or with the evolution of the individual features and productivity. These forms of variable remuneration have had a growing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988474
Cover Image
Paying to Avoid Recession : Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
Borgschulte, Mark - 2016
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding between reenlisting and exiting the military. We find that servicemembers would sacrifice 1.5-2% in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000064
Cover Image
Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla - 2006
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779109
Cover Image
Importing Inequality : Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, … - 2021
In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315015
Cover Image
Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2021
This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991- 1997. In particular, how the effect of an interruption changes over time, and whether the type of interruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321245
Cover Image
The US labour market after the COVID-19 recession
Gómez Salvador, Ramón; Soudan, Michel - 2022
The US economy has endured an exceptionally severe recession caused by the measures put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19. This occasional paper assesses the impact of this crisis on key labour market variables, such as (un-) employment, wages and productivity, and highlights the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264673
Cover Image
Importing inequality : immigration and the top 1 percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, Andy - 2020
In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308505
Cover Image
Is unemployment really scarring? : Effects of unemployment experiences on wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000
This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991-1997. In particular, how the effect of an interruption changes over time, and whether the type of interruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001509798
Cover Image
Is unemployment really scarring? : effects of unemployment experiences on wages
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2000
This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991- 1997. In particular, how the effect of an interruption changes over time, and whether the type of interruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336854