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Changes in Male-Female Wage Differentials in Germany and Japan : The Role of Foreign Trade and Supply and Demand Shifts for Labor

Kucera, David - 1998

earnings in Germany and Japan since the early-1970s. The analysis is prompted by trade studies identifying manufacturing … employment in Japan but a nearly equal effect in Germany. In spite of this, demand shifted away from women's employment in … female labor supply, male-female wage differentials narrowed in Germany and widened in Japan, for both manufacturing and non …

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Strong Exports, High Unemployment, Low Gdp Growth - a Neoclassical Diagnosis of the German Disease (Exportweltmeister, ArbeitsplatzwüSte, Wachstumsschlusslicht - Eine Neoklassische...

Maurer, Rainer - 2007

This paper shows that the symptoms of the German Disease - high export growth, high unemployment and low real GDP growth - are easily explained by unbalanced real wage growth within the framework of a neoclassic open economy model: In this model unbalanced real wage growth causes unemployment...

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Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States

Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. In order to fully flesh out the experience of the United …

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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so …-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized … version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for …

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Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion

Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...

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Wage flexibility in a unionized economy with stable wage dispersion

Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019

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Low-wage Lessons

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

Over the last two decades, high – and, in some countries, rising – rates of low-wage work have emerged as a major political concern. If low-wage jobs act as a stepping stone to higher-paying work, then even a relatively high share of low-wage work may not be a serious social problem. If,...

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Diversity and Change: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers

Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

About 7.4 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) work in the United States, making up 5.3 percent of the total U.S. workforce. About 7.1 million of these AAPI workers are Asian Americans; about 300,000 are Pacific Islanders. The AAPI workforce is almost 20 times larger today than...

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The Union Wage Advantage for Low-Wage Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This report uses national data from 2003 to 2007 to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical low-wage worker (one in the 10th percentile) by 20.6 percent compared to 13.7 percent for the typical medium wage worker (one in the 50th percentile), 6.1 percent for the typical high-wage...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report reviews the characteristics of the immigrant workforce and analyzes the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of immigrant workers. According to the most recent available data, immigrant workers are now over 15 percent of the workforce and almost 13 percent of unionized...

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