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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job-to-job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...

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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Zwick, Thomas - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but can not look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? - a Cge Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2008

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory, the outcome is in general …

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Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …

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Minimum Wages and Competition : The Case of the German Roofing Sector

Kraft, Kornelius - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers

Schleife, Katrin - 2014

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm's proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm's IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2008

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment Using Firm-Level Data

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2014

Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...

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Restrictions of Fixed Term Employment Contracts : Evidence from a German Reform

Brüll, Eduard - 2019

This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more difficult for establishments that are not subject to employment protection to hire workers...

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Age and Productivity – Sector Differences?

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...

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