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Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
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Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320390
We study the implications of having different sources of nominal rigidities on the relationship between productivity growth and shocks volatility in a model with procyclical R&D and imperfect competition in goods and labor markets. We show that the effects of uncertainty on long-term growth not...
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Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to … industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry … tasks experience (little) wage decline due to major dependency of their industries on foreign inputs. Workers from former EU …
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This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the …
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The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and …
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The lack of comprehensive, international comparable wage data has been deplored for decades and has constrained the … empirical analysis of wage growth and inequality. This is the case although, since 1924, the International Labor Organization … (ILO) has conducted an October Inquiry to obtain data on wages worldwide, which leads to an annual wage survey containing …
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workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill …
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variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change …
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This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking these individuals to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the relationship...
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