IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy

IWH Research Seminar

Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy

This paper documents and theoretically explains a nexus between globalization and wage inequality within plants through internal labor market organization.

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Uncertainty, Wages, and the Business Cycle

We show that occasional deviations from efficient wage-setting generate strong and statedependent amplication of exogenous uncertainty shocks and contribute to explain the observed countercyclicality of empirical measures of aggregate uncertainty.

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The Long-Run Real Effects of Banking Crises: Firm-Level Investment Dynamics and the Role of Wage Rigidity

This paper studies the long-run effects of credit market disruptions on real firm outcomes and how these effects depend on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level.

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The Stability of Dividends and Wages: Effects of Competitor Inflexibility

We analyze how risk sharing between a firm’s employees and owners depends on its competitors’ response to industry-wide shocks.

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Evolution of the Wage Structure in East Germany

We analyze the evolution of the wage and employment structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany.

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Is Cash Still King: Why Firms Offer Non-Wage Compensation and the Implications for Shareholder Value

Over the past 40 years, the share of non-wage benefits in employee compensation grew from 5% to 30%. Using disaggregated data from Glassdoor, we first document a series of stylized facts about the availability of non-wage benefits and how these benefits are correlated with firm characteristics.