During the last few decades, aggregate wage growth has been very unevenly distributed across space in Germany. While wages in Southern German local labor markets rose by up to 28 log points, they increased only modestly or even declined in the north. Similar results apply to employment changes....

Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on the relative magnitudes of these influences. We estimate long run earnings correlations between brothers, school mates and teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework....

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...

Using data from Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia, in this paper, we assess how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages, and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to measure the quality of the environments in which workers live. The paper focuses on...

Innerhalb der letzten Jahrzehnte hat ein Großteil der industrialisierten Länder einen Anstieg der Pendeldistanzen verzeichnet. Dies ruft zunehmendes Interesse an den Determinanten der Pendelstrecken hervor. Die primäre theoretische Erklärung für längere Pendeldistanzen basiert auf höheren...

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...

I decompose changes in the U.S. household earnings distribution from 1975 to 2018 to examine the labor market processes underlying its evolution over time. I model the distri- bution of earnings as a function of price effects (wages) and quantity effects (work hours and household employment),...

In this paper, we argue that wage volatility is a good proxy for wage inequality because of the strong and lagged correlation between the two. For seven industry categories, inequality is modeled as a conditional variance process over the period 1964-1988. It is modified to allow for explanatory...