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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas - 2017
We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil, which experienced a large decrease in earnings inequality while its real minimum wage increased from 1996-2012, we document that the inequality decrease was bottom-driven yet...
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Sick Pay Reforms and Health Status in a Unionised Labour Market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages … and sick pay, we identify situations in which it will substitute wages for sick pay because adverse absence effects can be …
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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris van - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this study identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125246
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Asymmetries in Earnings, Employment and Wage Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958452
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Unemployment Effects of the German Minimum Wage in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
Blömer, Maximilian - 2020
We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851339
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Centralised Labour Market Negotiations
Müller, Julia - 2013
This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that during negotiations on a central scale employers and employees plausibly take output market effects into account, while they behave competitively during firm-level negotiations....
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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2021
that the bargaining power of women in more traditional households is relatively low, but our estimation results do not …
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2021
firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers’ wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that … the premia dispersion over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315426
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Wage Inequality in Germany : Disentangling Demand and Supply Effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply effects on wage inequality in Germany using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) type. Specifically, the methodological contribution...
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....
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