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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000
Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822488
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822686
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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150626
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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Biewen, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822659
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
lines are based on subjective questions regarding income and economic welfare while the last concept focuses on satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762394
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The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279235
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279338
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078566
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Decomposing the Composition Effect
Rothe, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences in the distribution of covariates. Our decomposition contains three types of components: (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653985
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The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283575