Regional wage gaps persist, and understanding them is crucial for policy design and for comprehending phenomena such that agglomeration. This article analyzes regional wage differences in Colombia by incorporating the composition of skills and specialization patterns into the analysis. To do...

Research background: The unadjusted gender pay gap (GPG) is one of the indicators that measure progress towards SDG5. There is considerable variability in the values of this indicator among the individual countries and regions of the EU. However, due to the effects resulting from the...

From a long-term perspective little is known about income inequality in Venezuela. This is regrettable as the country offers a unique opportunity to study distributional dynamics in an economy dominated by oil richness since the 1920s amid an accelerated process of structural change amid...

This paper examines the impact of the statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany on within-region inequality. Utilizing SOEP data, we estimate the effects across population subgroups disaggregated by sex. Macro-level findings show that while the interquartile ratio did not change...

This paper examines the labor market performance of immigrants and their descendants in France by estimating a series of empirical Tobit II models for the Paris region and the rest of the country. The analysis focuses on two central outcomes-labor force participation and wage...

Job levels summarize the complexity, autonomy, and responsibility involved in executing tasks. They are conceptually distinct from occupations and education. Our finding that job levels can be constructed from task execution data demonstrates their economic content. We present a novel theory of...