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Changing trends in China's inequality : key issues and main findings

Sicular, Terry; Li, Shi; Yue, Ximing; Satō, Hiroshi - 2017

This introductory chapter provides background to and summarizes key findings from the chapters in this book, all of which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We...

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Why did Britain's households get richer? : decomposing UK household income growth between 1968 and 2008-09

Brewer, Mike; Wren-Lewis, Liam - 2012

Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on household incomes, and relatively simple decomposition methods, we document the contribution to this growth in the mean net household income of working-age households from different...

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Technical change, task allocation, and labor unions

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas; Brall, Franziska - 2022

-and-matching model with low- and high-skilled workers, and wage setting by labor unions. We establish the relationship between task … reallocation and changes in wage pressure, and examine how skill-biased technical change (SBTC) affects the task composition, wages …-skilled workers may be harmed in terms of either lower wages or higher unemployment depending on the relative task …

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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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Aggregate labor market outcomes : the roles of choice and chance

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard Donald - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 1 (2010) 1, pp. 97-127

Commonly used frictional models of the labor market imply that changes in frictions have large effects on steady state employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the robustness of this feature to the inclusion of an...

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EUROLAB: a multidimensional labour supply-demand model for EU countries

Narazani, Edlira; Colombino, Ugo; Palma, Bianey - 2021

This paper describes EUROLAB, a labour supply-demand microsimulation model that relies on EUROMOD, the static microsimulation model for the European Union countries. EUROLAB is built on a multidimensional discrete choice model of labour supply and accounts for involuntary unemployment. The model...

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Modelling sector-specific employment shocks with EUROLAB, a multidimensional behavioural model

Narazani, Edlira; Colombino, Ugo - 2021

demand shocks lower wages, employment and increase unemployment under equilibrium conditions. Furthermore, the results show …

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Work incentives and the efficiency of tax-transfer reforms under constrained labor supply

Fischer, Benjamin; Jessen, Robin; Steiner, Viktor - 2019

Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply, where involuntary unemployment as well as over- and underemployment are modelled in a theoretically consistent way. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...

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Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes auf die Beschäftigung und den Arbeitnehmerschutz in der Abfallwirtschaft

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Sprietsma, Maresa; Niefert, Michaela; … - 2012

Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn mit ca. 23% der Unternehmen und 6% der Beschäftigten als gering einzustufen ist. Die … Beschäftigungsverhältnisse feststellen. -- Mindestlohn ; Abfallwirtschaft ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitnehmerschutz …

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Labor market concentration and wages : incumbents versus new hires

Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien; Caroli, Eve - 2023

We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on average wages and decompose it into its effects on new hires …. Using administrative data for France, we find that concentration negatively affects both new hires' and incumbents' wages … wages into its different components, we find that the negative effect on incumbents' wages accounts for between two thirds …

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