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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Beyond Becker : Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Acemoglu, Daron - 1998

In this paper, we survey non-competitive theories of training. With competitive labor markets, firms never pay for investments in general training, whereas when labor markets are imperfect, firm-sponsored training arises as an equilibrium phenomenon. We discuss a variety of evidence which...

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A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets : Before and After Unification

Krueger, Alan B. - 1992

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper has three goals; first, to place U.S. job growth in international perspective by exploring cross-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …

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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings : Evidence from the German Short School Year

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2003

This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...

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Continuous Training in Germany

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 1996

training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …

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The Returns to Computer Use Revisited : Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?

DiNardo, John E. - 1996

unobserved heterogeneity? We examine this issue with three large cross-sectional surveys from Germany. First, we confirm that the … estimated wage differentials associated with computer use in Germany are very similar to the U.S. differential. Second, using …

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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - 1996

explanations of firm sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …

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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany

Krueger, Alan B. - 1996

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the …

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