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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522630
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868116
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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129004
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636406
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Increased Opportunity to Move up the Economic Ladder?: Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479306
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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials?: Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549991
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality in EU, 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in … both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018720
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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018726
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to freeride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union membership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679946
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A Level Playing Field: An Optimal Weighting Scheme of Dismissal Protection Characteristics
Kind, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
In the case of collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who is going to be dismissed. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical based weighting scheme between the characteristics relevant for this selection (age, disability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896282