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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model

Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011

effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. …

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Pay enough, don't pay too much or don't pay at all? The impact of bonus intensity on job satisfaction

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010

Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After controlling for individual heterogeneity biases,...

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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004

This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...

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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2000

The theory of compensating wage differentials is generally accepted. Still, there has been no strong or even contrary evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived...

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The value of a statistical injury: new evidence from the Swiss labor market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - 2009

We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial panel structure of our data which allows us to empirically isolate the wage component specific...

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Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?

Clark, Andrew; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...

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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We contribute to the literature on well-being and comparisons by appealing to new Danish data dividing the country up into around 9,000 small neighbourhoods. Administrative data provides us with the income of every person in each of these neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to...

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A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well …-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …

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