This paper studies the impact of educational attainment on Labor Market outcomes using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for 10 countries over a multi-year period. The 10 countries in this study include USA, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Spain, Norway, Australia, and...

With the current economic transformation, the widening gap between income and the accumulation of wealth becomes an important area of study. This study reviews wage differentials and a number of economic theories regarding wage determination and labor market incentives. To analyze the wage...

The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on...

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state...

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses crossnational variation in the...

Persistent low fertility rates lead to lower population growth rates and eventually also to decreasing population sizes in most industrialized countries. There are fears that this demographic development is associated with declines in per capita GDP and possibly also increasing inequality of the...

Mit Hilfe der 1%-Mikrozensus-Stichprobe des Statistischen Bundesamtes für das Jahr 2001 werden qualifikationsspezifische Einkommensunterschiede in Deutschland untersucht. Die Nettoeinkommen sind klar gestaffelt: Promovierte verdienen rund 50 % mehr als nicht promovierte Akademiker, nicht...

Noch immer ist die Situation von Frauen in technischen Berufen eine besondere und die Wahl eines technischen Ausbildungsweges für Frauen nicht selbstverständlich. Auch nach erfolgreich abgeschlossener Ausbildung und erfolgtem Einstieg in ein technisches Berufsfeld ist die Situation von Frauen...

In welchen Branchen der Mindestlohn negative Beschäftigungseffekte auslösen wird, hängt auch von der Lohnsetzungsmacht der Arbeitgeber ab. - Ob die flächendeckende Lohnuntergrenze in Deutschland zu Entlassungen führt, wird sich erst mittelfristig zeigen. Eine neue RWI-Analyse ermöglicht...