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Chapter 18. Labor Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1535-1727). 2015

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of …

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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014

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Effects of the German minimum wage on wages and household income

Pusch, Toralf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 245 (2025) 1/2, pp. 153-183

income from wages, as well as gross and net means-weighted income of workers in Germany. For the first time, data from the …

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Rising U.S. Earnings Inequality and Family Labor Supply : The Covariance Structure of Intrafamily Earnings

Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2010

This paper studies the labor supply contributions to individual and family earnings inequality during the period of rising wage inequality in the early 1980's. Working couples have positively correlated labor market outcomes, which are almost entirely attributable to permanent factors. An...

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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income

Redmond, Paul - 2020

the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies

Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...

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Are working hours a new driver of inequality? : on the relation between hours inequality, earnings inequality, and collective bargaining in Germany

Gerold, Stefanie; Stein, Ulrike - 2020

between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …

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Using distribution regression difference-in-differences to evaluate the effects of a minimum wage introduction on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Rümmele, Marian - 2022

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …

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The short-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform

Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017

detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and … employees in a geographical region with wages below the minimum wage prior to the reform. We document the reform's positive …

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