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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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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Salverda, Wiemer - 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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Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China

Mengbing, Zhu; Li, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023

This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … more than her husband - strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is …

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