normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay … productivity differentials: in equilibrium, firms that employ workers with comparatively scarcer skills, other things equal, export … a larger proportion of their output, pay higher wages and charge higher prices …

acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants’ career paths and the estimation of their earnings … profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages than stayers. This empirical fact suggests substantial skill selection effects … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …

’ export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … 1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …