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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008 : trends in permanent and transitory income components and the role of the welfare state

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...

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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...

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Do employees profit from profit sharing? : evidence from Canadian panel data

Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2012

Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt profit sharing. Our research contributes to...

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Is earnings nonresponse ignorable?

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010

Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched in the earnings imputation hot deck. If nonresponse...

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? : the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic on economic performance in Sweden

Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Pichler, Stefan - 2012

We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the severest and deadliest pandemics in human history, but it has hitherto received only scant attention in the economic literature - despite important implications for modern-day...

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Intergenerational persistence in income and social class : the impact of within-group inequality

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - 2011

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … the intergenerational persistence of the permanent component of income that is unrelated to social class. We reject the …

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...

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Wage mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

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Wage mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

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