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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517639
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519518
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What do we know about income and earnings volatility?
Brewer, Mike; Cominetti, Nye; Jenkins, Stephen - 2025
We first review research about income and earnings volatility and second provide new UK evidence about the latter using high quality administrative record data. The USA stands out as a high volatility country relative to the UK and other high-income countries, but volatility levels have remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015338658
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Does the German minimum wage help low income households? : evidence from observed outcomes and the simulation of potential effects
Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019
reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e … descriptive ex-post evidence on the distributional implications of the German minimum wage on wages and disposable household … by the minimum wage based on pre-reform wages ignoring large job fluctuations and measurement error at the bottom of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014238
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835
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Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities : Does Institutional Diversity Matter?
Garnero, Andrea - 2014
wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected information on minimum rates from more than 1,100 sectoral-level agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047856
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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014
wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected information on minimum rates from more than 1,100 sectoral-level agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402100
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2024
-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. For estimation we use data on married American men from the PSID. Permanent wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015142162
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160640