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The development of wages in Germany in the 1990s - descriptions and explanations

Steiner, Viktor; Hölzle, Thomas - In: The personal distribution of income in an international …, (pp. 7-30). 2000

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Essays on income inequality, poverty and mobility

Bönke, Timm - 2010

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The role of employment interruptions and part-time work for the rise in wage inequality

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; de Lazzer, Jakob - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 10, pp. 1-34

role for the rise in inequality of full-time wages, considering the case of Germany. While there are also strong …

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Wage structure and inequality : the role of observed and unobserved heterogeneity

Boza, István - 2021

This study aims to contribute to the literature of firms and occupations as prominent drivers of wage-inequality in multiple ways. First, we synthesize novel modelling approaches of recent studies in the field and use administrative linked employer-employee panel data from an Eastern European...

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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare

Riedel, Lukas - 2024

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting …

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Labor market competition and inequality

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2023

Does competition in the labor market affect wage inequality? Standard textbook monopsony models predict that lower employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the...

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Meritocracy across countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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Occupational and regional mobility as substitutes : a new approach to understanding job changes and wage inequality

Reichelt, Malte; Abraham, Martin - 2015

leads to lower wage increases. We use linked retrospective life-course data for Germany (ALWA-ADIAB) and apply competing … verknüpfte retrospektive Lebensverlaufsdaten für Deutschland zurück (ALWA-ADIAB) und benutzen Competing-Risk Regressionen um zu …

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort …

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred in the US not just recently, but also in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that in each case polarization resulted from increased automation, and...

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