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Wage growth and job mobility in the UK and Germany

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and that job movers may be negatively … selected in Germany, but not in the UK. Our findings suggest that returns to experience are substantially higher in the UK … in the UK and 30 percent in Germany. Separate estimates for different qualification groups show that in Germany, it is …

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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000

Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...

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In-school work experience, parental allowances, and wages

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017

We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among employers and workers, rather than an increase in the outflow...

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the …

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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The institutional context of an "empirical law" : the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different … bargaining ; Germany …

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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Women move differently : job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

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