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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

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Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, Overtime Payments and the Gender Wage Gap

Cerejeira, Joao - 2012

Using linked employer-employee data for Portugal, we explore an amendment to the minimum wage law which increased from 75% to 100% of the full minimum wage applied to employees younger than 18. Our results show a widening of the gender wage gap following the amendment: the wage gap for minors...

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Minimum wage, fringe benefits, overtime payments and the gender wage gap

Cerejeira, João; Kızılca, Kemal; Portela, Miguel; … - 2012

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Labour Demand in Germany : An Assessment of Non-Wage Labour Costs

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2021

The data indicate that non-wage labour costs in Germany have reached a record high in recent years. From 1972 to 2001, the ratio of non-wage labour costs to direct compensation in West German manufacturing industry rose from 55.6 per cent to 81.2 per cent. The topic of nonwage labour costs is...

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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in … the same jobs. However, they face a series of challenges in the labor market, including lower wages in comparison to their … performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay moderates their wages. Using German Socio-Economic Panel …

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Overeducation, performance pay and wages : evidence from Germany

Baktash, Mehrzad B. - 2023

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Quantifying the role of firms in intergenerational mobility

Castro Dobbin, Cauê de; Zohar, Tom - 2023

We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE using a two-way fixed effects framework. Using data from Israel, we find that the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall...

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Separation Costs, Job Heterogeneity and Labor Market Volatility in the Matching Model

Silva, José Ignacio - 2009

This paper extends the standard matching model by introducing a gap in separation costs between entrant and incumbent …

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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015

We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...

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How much do means-tested benefits reduce the demand for annuities?

Bütler, Monika; Peijnenburg, Kim; Staubli, Stefan - 2013

We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...

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