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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
specialized occupations. Compared to non-migrants, immigrants receive more than twice the return for using English. Returns depend … such as international experience that their non-migrant counterparts lack. As immigrants do not earn significant wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887011
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543246
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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103185
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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982753
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Minimum Wages and Firm Training
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The paper analyzes the influence of minimum wages on firms’ incentive to train their employees. We show that this influence rests on two countervailing effects: minimum wages (i) augment wage compression and thereby raise firms’ incentives to train and (ii) reduce the profitability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755173
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Firm Training and Wage Rigidity
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818855
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …
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