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wages to increase beyond productivity increases. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is extended to trace cyclical …

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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the Catalan labor market

Gómez Adillón, M. Jesús; Cabasés Piqué, M. Àngels - 2014

) and salary (and lower contribution bases attached to them). We can delve into the structure of wages in Catalonia (Spain … Pietra index to quantify the dispersion in the distribution of wages between men and women and for this purpose the model of …

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Optimal adjustment paths in a monetary union

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2016

Adjustment to an external imbalance is more diffi cult within a monetary union if wages are sticky. Periods of high …

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Urban wage premium increasing with education level : identification of agglomeration effects for Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Rattsø, Jørn; Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2012 - First draft: February 15, 2012

Income levels are higher in cities. The evidence for the income gap between urban and rural areas is overwhelming, but the agglomeration effect is hard to identify. Recent advances make use of individual level data to separate out sorting and instrumentation to handle the endogeneity of...

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Employer size, productivity, labour quality, working conditions, internal labour markets and wages : an empirical analysis of the hotel industry in Andalusia

García-Pozo, Alejandro; Marchante Mera, Andrés J.; … - 2012

employer size have been studied. A labour market in which wages depend on employer size means the characteristics of the same … for the hotel industry. Using data from the research project "Mismatch in education, productivity and wages in the … size and wages in the hotel industry. The second aim was to account for wage premia earned by workers employed by larger …

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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

be traced back to time-varying observable characteristics. Migrants increase their wages over time mainly by changing …

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Do rich households live farther away from their workplaces?

Gutierrez-I-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2012

instrumental variables to deal with endogenity of household income by observing that commuting may affect wages only when workers …

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Wage bargaining and turnover costs with heterogeneous labour : the no-screening case

Strand, Jon - 1998

We study the effects of mobility costs in a model of wage bargaining between workers and firms, where there is instantaneous matching, free firm entry, heterogeneous labour, and workers' individual productivities are discovered by firms only after being hired. We derive the employment level and...

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Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Germany : the importance of heterogeneity and attrition bias

Fertig, Michael; Schurer, Stefanie - 2007

Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of economic integration difficult. Using a rich longitudinal data-set, this paper tests for differences in economic assimilation profiles of four entry cohorts of foreign-born...

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Risk attitudes and wage growth : replication and reconstruction

Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009 - This draft: March 18, 2009

We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...

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