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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. Sicherman (1991) was able to confirm this theory in an empirical study. However, the controls for the opposing phenomenon of undereducation...
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This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who … imputed using a probit estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). Average wages of those classified as displaced … recalls, and to the probit specification used, and are confirmed in the smaller GSOEP file. -- displaced workers ; wages …
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Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that … statistically significant effect on current wages leads one to conclude that computer wage differentials can be attributed to worker …
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This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary … Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition …
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-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of … temporary employees in Germany using socio-economic panel data from the late 1990s. Compared to simple OLS estimates, using a …
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There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...
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This paper studies signs and reasons of decline of job stability in West Germany. Using data from the German Socio …
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This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings …
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