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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996 - 2003

Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …

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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …

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Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...

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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...

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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …

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Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK

Muravyev, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …

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Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This...

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