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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.

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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

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...

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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

East and West Germany. In East-West comparison, differences in the characteristics of the work force reflect a lower …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703126

Cultural Integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of …. These indicators are also presented. All of these indicators are depicted in comparison between natives and immigrants … differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development …

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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 … in the labor market performance of second generation migrants resemble those of the first generation. We also find that …

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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 union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...

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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-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1984 to 1996. Using a sample...

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Top‐Down vs. Bottom‐Up: The Long‐Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a …

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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?

Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...

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