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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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The Labour Market in CGE Models

Boeters, Stefan - 2012

This chapter reviews options of labor market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labor supply side, two principal modelling options are distinguished and discussed: aggregated, representative households and micro simulation based on individual household data. On the labor demand side, we focus...

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Labor Shortage and Innovation

Horbach, Jens - 2020

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and...

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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Fixed Term Contracts as Sorting Mechanisms : Evidence from Job Durations in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2008

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially...

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The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates

Zimmermann, Volker - 2014

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...

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The Labor Demand Effects of Refugee Immigration : Evidence From a Natural Experiment

Berbée, Paul; Brücker, Herbert; Garloff, Alfred; … - 2023

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … not change significantly which can be traced back to widespread labor market rigidities in Germany. The isolation of labor …

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Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments : The Role of Employers' Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the relationship between job reallocation, worker reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more...

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The German Labour Market Reforms in a European Context : A DSGE Analysis

Fries, Claudia - 2013

consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany's trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany's trade surplus …

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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification : (East) Germany in Transition

Gernandt, Johannes - 2008

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

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