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Importing Inequality : Immigration and the Top 1 Percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, … - 2021
In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the … universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as …, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315015
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet … Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … attainments than natives, and that within the group of migrants, Jewish migrants perform better than ethnic German migrants. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Immigration and Wage Dynamics in Germany
Klinger, Sabine - 2020
German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural. Micro-founded Phillips curves fit the German data rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843295
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany : Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet … Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … attainments than natives, and that within the group of migrants, Jewish migrants perform better than ethnic German migrants. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077819
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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics
Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048376
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Completing the bathtub? : the development of top incomes in Germany, 1907 - 2007
Anselmann, Christina; Krämer, Hagen - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of top incomes in Germany from 1907-2007 with a special focus on past decades. A more detailed analysis of German top incomes is conducted, beginning with a review of selected income distribution measures which indicate that high incomes have played a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557697
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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? : the determinants of high incomes in Germany
Hirschel, Dierk - 2003
, Einkommensverteilung und Reichtum. -- Hohe Einkommen ; Soziale Herkunft ; Diskriminierung ; Humankapital ; Leistung ; Sozio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009678076
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Hohe Einkommen : eine Verteilungsanalyse für freie Berufe, Unternehmer und abhängig Beschäftigte ; eine Mikroanalyse auf der Basis der Einkommensteuerstatistik
Merz, Joachim; Zwick, Markus - 2003
vorgestellt und diskutiert. -- Reichtum ; hohe Einkommen ; Einkommensverteilung von Freiberuflern ; Unternehmern als Selbständige … employees. -- Wealth ; high income ; incoime distribution of (liberal) professions ; entrepreneurs and employees ; decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009678078
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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? : the determinants of high incomes in Germany
Hirschel, Dierk - 2003
In der neoklassischen ökonomischen Theorie wird das individuelle Einkommen durch die individuelle Job-Performanz bestimmt. Somit reflektiert ein hohes Einkommen eine hohe marginale Arbeitsproduktivität der reichen Arbeitenden. Während die wissenschaftliche Forschung zur Armut eine lange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002071810
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Hohe Einkommen : eine Verteilungsanalyse für freie Berufe, Unternehmer und abhängig Beschäftigte; eine Mikroanalyse auf der Basis der Einkommensteuerstatistik
Merz, Joachim - 2003
Die Verteilung gesellschaftlicher Ressourcen ist von hoher gesellschafts- wie wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Bedeutung. Was allerdings für eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung fehlt, sind zuverlässige Daten vor allem zu den hohen Einkommen. Die vorliegende Studie soll dazu beitragen, die...
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