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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue

Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019

The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...

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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...

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Inter-industry labor flows

Neffke, Frank; Otto, Anne; Weyh, Antje - 2016

Labor flows across industries reallocate resources and diffuse knowledge among economic activities. However, surprisingly little is known about the structure of such inter-industry flows. How freely do workers switch jobs among industries? Between which pairs of industries do we observe such...

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The spatial decay of human capital externalities - a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data

Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2020

This paper analyzes human capital externalities from high-skilled workers by applying functional regression to precise geocoded register data. Functional regression enables us to describe the concentration of high-skilled workers around workplaces as continuous curves and to efficiently estimate...

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Say it like Goethe : language learning facilities abroad and the self-selection of immigrants

Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2019

Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high requirements on characteristics such as education and language skills. We rely on a standard self-selection model with heterogeneous migration costs to discuss the effect of access...

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