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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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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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Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany
Schündeln, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233820
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455548
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416948
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822735
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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