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Unconditional and conditional quantile regressions are used to explore the determinants of labour earnings at different parts of the distribution and, hence, the determinants of overall labour earnings inequality. The analysis combines several household surveys to provide comparable estimates...
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In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...
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This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...
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income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy …. Drawing on empirical analysis of the links between structural policies and the distribution of labour income, the paper looks … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …
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In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income … distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using …
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We examine patterns of earnings volatility for male employees who are subject to statutory social security contributions in West Germany over the period 1986 - 2005. For this purpose, we analyse individual records covering highly reliable earnings biographies provided by the German Social...
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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …
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. Within countries, it assesses the possibilities for individuals to protect their wealth, labour and capital income against … institutions can be identified that facilitate risk sharing between high and low income earners, namely “social protection” and …
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We provide an overidentification test for a nonparametric treatment model where individuals are allowed to select into treatment based on unobserved gains. Our test can be used to test the validity of instruments in a framework with essential heterogeneity (Imbens and Angrist 1994). The...
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Successful innovation is a precondition for economic prosperity. While various potential determinants of innovative activity have been considered, little empirical evidence is yet available for the influence of firm governance issues. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by...
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