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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822270
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Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century
Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822675
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data
Bauer, Thomas; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216752
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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763548
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … the differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703126
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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703674
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566808
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812505
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How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Frazis, Harley; Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...
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