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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763619
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761848
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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703776
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004567
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Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates: New Australian Panel Evidence
Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
literature. This paper uses recent panel data from the 2010 Beyond Graduation Survey to analyse the incidence of labour force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353422
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper is no longer available.
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Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany
Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693837
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Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries
Arnold, Jens; Bassanini, Andrea; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the different non-linear restrictions implied by them as regards the relationship between factor shares and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684808
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822762
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Fading Hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646298