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in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time …
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Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in...
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …
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: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …
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dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
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We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...
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final agreement between employers and successful candidates. Using Heckman and OLS estimation methods we provide empirical …
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inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages … Norway’s corporate tax revenues due to profit shifting …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
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