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What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - 2008
of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial …. Regional differentials in non-pecuniary assets slightly contribute to spatial sorting processes in Germany. Such differences in … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726912
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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie - 2018
This paper examines the determinants of gross labor flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by Borjas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940317
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What Old Stagers Could Teach Us – Examining Age Complementarities in Regional Innovation Systems
Arntz, Melanie - 2014
Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049642
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Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks : A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Migration in Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Lo, Simon; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2008
migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224619
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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an Age Framework
Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008
We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
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