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Inter-regional wage differentials in Portugal : an analysis across the wage distribution
Pereira, João Manuel; Galego, Maria Aurora - 2012
between the various regions are not stable. Moreover, these findings confirm previous evidence as to the existence of … significant regional wage differences between the Lisboa region and the other regions, and also reveal increasing differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522719
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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Šlander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571230
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A new machine learning-based treatment bite for long run minimum wage evaluations
Börschlein, Benjamin; Bossler, Mario - 2021
Empirical evaluations of national minimum wages, such as in Germany or the UK, rely on bite measures that capture treatment variation; measured from the incidence (or intensity) of employees paid below the threshold before the minimum wage was introduced or raised. Bite-dependent estimations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337713
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Northern investment risks in human capital formation : Russian experience
Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014
Historically, the northern Russian regions have been an object of a special socio-economic policy, united by extreme … development in the northern regions of Russia. Northern investment risks encompass uncertainties associated with extreme northern … climate conditions, historically determined allocation of resources in the Russian northern regions and restrictions on labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499452
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Generating formal employment in a context of implementation of the Decent Work Agenda : a review over territories Bahian identity
Medeiros Junior, Helcio de; Souza, Laumar Neves de; … - 2015
The positive dynamics of the national economy in relation to the generation of jobs formal has been an issue that has generated a great deal of interest in Brazilian society and, consequently, has gained much space in more different vehicles of communication, in the course of the last decade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477062
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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction
Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020
While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...
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Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages : heterogeneous effects across education groups
Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2016
The empirical evidence on the incidence of payroll taxation is primarily based on the wage bill of firms. This paper applies matched employer-employee register data on individual wages for all private sector workers in Norway. Exploiting a payroll tax reform and using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490702
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421929
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Decomposing the German East-West wage gap
Kluge, Jan; Weber, Michael - 2015
We demonstrate that almost one half of the observed wage gap between East and West Germany reflects differences in worker, establishment, and regional characteristics rather than differences in productivity at the establishment level. Regional price and establishment size differentials alone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480321