applies matched employer-employee register data on individual wages for all private sector workers in Norway. Exploiting a … of the labor demand elasticity decreases with the level of education. …

to be unaffected throughout childhood. Thus, initial inequality increases during childhood. Since families are the main … sources of education during the first years of a child's life, our results have important implications for the quality of the …

consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …

back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for low-skilled workers. Since … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation induced reshoring is associated with an increasing … skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from …

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level … wage distribution. Employment dynamics cannot explain the effects along the wage distribution, implying strong wage … introduction can account for about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality …

high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as …

macroeconomic reform, which on the other hand can have important effects on the distribution of income. With such a model we try to … study the possible changes in the distribution of income deriving from the Free Trade Agreement with USA. Our analysis finds … only small changes both in the main macroeconomic variables and in the distribution of income and poverty indices. …

(left) tail of the productivity distribution have the highest propensity of finding a job with a help of professional … (family) contacts, whereas the formal channel of search is mostly utilized by workers in the middle range of the distribution …

higher quality. In general, the largest volume of freshmen in jobs had 18 to 24 years, high school education, realizing wages … has entered this market in previous decade, which the level of salary offered, the level of education required, which the … concentration of jobs generated reflects the great inequality of opportunities of employment the worker baiano in relations of …

capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a … positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the same time, employees accept job offers from more productive employers … lower than the average productivity in the market. This is a negative selection effect of referrals on wages. In the …