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Exchange Rate Regime and Wage Determination in Central and Eastern Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Ziegler, Christina - CESifo - 2008
After the eastern enlargement of the European Union due to increasing labor market integration, wage determination and monetary integration in Central and Eastern Europe have become key issues in European economic policy making. Based on the Scandinavian model of wage adjustment by Lindbeck...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766137
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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2013
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. For men, the wage premium for a permanent job is lower for older workers and native born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877919
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Real and Monetary Challenges to Wage Policy in Germany at the Turn of the Millennium: Technical Progress, Globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - CESifo - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765693
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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - CESifo - 2006
in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, while occupation differentials are similar. The gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766015
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2008
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766091
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Development versus Legacy: The Relative Role of Development and Historical Legacies in Achieving Gender Equality
Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - CESifo - 2013
Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014
they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948840
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Household Models: An Historical Perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005249452
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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596585