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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 …
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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC
Jovicic, Sonja - 2015
This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335002
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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
Guadalupe, Maria - 2021
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318592
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Internationaler Handel, technologischer Fortschritt und Arbeitsmärkte
Engelmann, Sabine - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311329
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Employment and distribution effects of the mnimum wage
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....
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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...
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Changes in working hours are driving earnings inequality
Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 32/34, pp. 195-201
According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly …
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Wage Mobility : Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with minimum wages, employment protection, and collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319404
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Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001 : Year, Age and Cohort Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan; Alessie, Rob - 2021
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980's and early 1990's and remained fairly constant in the second half of the 1990's....
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers …
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