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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market

Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017

This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...

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Stuck in a marriage : labor market shocks, divorce and intra-household reallocation

Kureishi, Wataru; Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah; … - 2025

Families play an important role in providing insurance against adverse shocks, but little is known about how shocks affect the family structure itself. We study the impact of a labor market shock on divorce and intra-household allocation of resources, exploiting a naturalexperimental earthquake...

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Unions and the labor market for managers

DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …

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

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

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly - driven not only by...

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Unionization, stochastic dominance, and compression of the wage distribution: Evidence from Germany

Burda, Michael C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lembcke, … - 2008

, cannot be corroborated for wages determined at the firm level. Stochastic dominance is confirmed, as predicted by the …

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

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

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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The big shift in working arrangements : eight ways unusual

Davis, Steven J. - 2024

and employers, and alters the structure of wages. The big shift also reduces wage-growth pressures during the transition … and real product wages for firms. …

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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an Age Framework

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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