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Jahrelanger Trend zunehmender Lohnspreizung gestoppt
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 38, pp. 567-570
Die Ungleichheit der Arbeitnehmereinkünfte hat seit Mitte der 90er Jahre immer weiter zugenommen, wovon insbesondere der jahrelang wachsende Niedriglohnsektor betroffen war. Dieser Trend wurde im jüngsten konjunkturellen Beschäftigungsaufbau, der im Frühjahr 2006 einsetzte, jedoch gebrochen....
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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12
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Impact of democratic/non-democratic regimes on foreign direct investment in Pakistan: Pre and post September 11, 2001 scenarios
Nawaz, Tahir; Khan, Masood Amjad; Shah, Muhammad Akbar Ali - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 1, pp. 67-82
observed that the volatility shocks are quite persistent and take a long time to die out. September 11, 2001incident and … thereafter war on terror has increased the conditional volatility of foreign direct investment and has statistically significant … volatility. One interesting finding of this study is that the impact of Non-Democratic regime before September, 11 scenario is …
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997-2008
García-Fernández, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-15, pp. 1-40
In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...
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Modelling volatile time series with v-transforms and copulas
McNeil, Alexander J. - In: Risks 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-26
time series and quantiles of the distribution of a predictable volatility proxy variable. They can be represented as … copulas and permit the formulation and estimation of models that combine arbitrary marginal distributions with copula … processes for the dynamics of the volatility proxy. The idea is illustrated using a Gaussian ARMA copula process and the …
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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 49 (2003) 4, pp. 513-537
This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...
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Zur Gleichstellung beim Entgelt von Frauen und Männern mit gleicher Qualifikation
Koll, Willi - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 101 (2021) 8, pp. 645-651
cost and to end discrimination in wages, some options are suggested. …
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The Dynamics of Reservation Wages: Preliminary Evidence from the GSOEP
Prasad, Enswar - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 44-50
reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting … perspective on the dynamics of reservation wages and their correlations with accepted wage offers for workers who make the …
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The Gender Wage Gap in OECD Countries
Nikolka, Till - In: CESifo DICE Report 11 (2013) 1, pp. 69-71
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Selection wages and discrimination
Schlicht, Ekkehart - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-6, pp. 1-30
productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off between the wage level and the productivity of the workforce are … known as selection wages. As men react more strongly to wage differentials than females, the trade-off is more pronounced …
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