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Soziale Sicherungssysteme und Arbeitsmarktperformanz in der EU ; Teil 1: Hauptergebnisse
Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike; Budimir, Kristina; Eppel, Rainer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957133
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Soziale Sicherungssysteme und Arbeitsmarktperformanz in der EU ; Teil 2: Vertiefende Analyse
Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike; Budimir, Kristina; Eppel, Rainer - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003957139
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Clustering life trajectories: A new divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm for discrete-valued discrete time series
Dlugosz, Stephan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16-65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869216
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Niedriglohnbeschäftigung - Brücke in dauerhafte Beschäftigung oder Niedriglohnfalle?
Lutz, Hedwig; Mahringer, Helmut - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003955613
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The livelihood effects of industrialization on displaced households: Evidence from falta special economic zone, West Bengal
Paul, Saumik; Sarma, Vengadeshvaran - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Much of the debate on industrialization and displacement has, so far, focused on the optimum compensation for affected households. Our recently concluded study, comprising of a sample of 1017 households including 630 affected (displaced and land acquired) and 387 unaffected households, looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957656
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Youth unemployment in the OECD: The role of institutions
Sachs, Andreas; Smolny, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957666
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The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957681
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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector
Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957738
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Age and productivity: Sector differences?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323189