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This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, fulltime employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …
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This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis for a sample of young, male, full-time employees in Western Germany … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588151
-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine … also high-type (and therefore more expensive) workers, even though wages do react to the slack. All in all, our results …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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) and salary (and lower contribution bases attached to them). We can delve into the structure of wages in Catalonia (Spain … Pietra index to quantify the dispersion in the distribution of wages between men and women and for this purpose the model of …
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examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart …
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concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature … product of hourly wages and labor supply in terms of hours and weeks worked. In addition to inequality in labor market …
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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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wages and analyzing the distribution of inter-group and intra-group inequality between men and women. …
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This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …
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