subminimum wages to newly hired workers under the age of 25. This quasi-experiment enables us to compare wages for new hires in … the standard minimum wages for subsequent hires. …

employer labor market power reduces wage dispersion. We test this hypothesis using Social Security data from Lithuania. We … first fit a two-way fixed effects model to quantify the contribution of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage dispersion and … document that the compression of dispersion in firm fixed effects has been the main source of the decline in inequality over …

argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be …

argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we show that changes in working hours, not changes in wages, are the … earnings distribution based on desired working hours and actual hourly wages exhibits significantly less inequality than the …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …