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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
employment probability and affects occupational choice. When selection into economic sector and occupation is regarded, we do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098179
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
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 Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097705
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097733
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097800
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097832