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Is job stability declining in Germany? : evidence from count data models

Winkelmann, Rainer - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Immigrant labor and workplace safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …

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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …

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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform

Million, Andreas - 1998

One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...

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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming …

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Development of wage inequality for natives and immigrants in Germany : evidence from quantile regression and decomposition

Peters, Heiko - 2008

To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...

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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …

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20 Years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

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