follow the mapping suggested by the household budget constraint from individual wages to individual earnings, to household … wage inequality over the sample period. Changes in the distribution of hours worked sharpen the rise in earnings inequality …

Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the United States than in continental European countries (CEU) since … in wage inequality, whereas the CEU has seen only modest changes. This paper studies the role of labor income tax … before-tax wage inequality at different points in time. Second, progressivity is also negatively correlated with the rise in …

variation in the profit share of these plants. Two policies - transfers and government-mandated wage increases - have opposite …

Implicit values of amenities and the quality of life in an area can be measured by differences in “real wages” across … areas, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences …

well as in worker-level or plant-level fixed-effects estimations we obtain evidence for a wage curve for plants with a …The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of … differences in the institutional framework may have an impact on the existence (or the slope) of a wage curve. Using a large …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to …

of earnings. We find large selection effects both in terms of worker and firm unobserved components of wages. The …We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and … West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional and fixed-effects estimations for the period 2001-2006 indicate that … the wage cushion mainly varies with the profit situation of the plant and with indicators of labour shortage and the …

participation decision through different individual preferences from the indirect effects through wages. We can show that …

This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment and obesity and to identify public policies …