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Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - 2001
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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Does future PC use determine our wages today? : evidence from German panel data
Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2002
Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...
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On the wages of temporary help service workers in Germany
Kvasnicka, Michael; Werwatz, Axel - 2002
Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition …, we present evidence showing that average male real earnings in the THS industry have declined by about 9% in the period … average long-term earnings effects of THS work. If anything, THS work seems to have aided workers in putting to a halt …
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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?
McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.
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 fixed effects model decreases wage differentials between...
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Finance, investment, and firm value in Germany and the US : a comparative analysis
Nowak, Eric - 1998
Germany and the United States are generally seen as the two competing systems of corporate governance. In search for a comparative welfare analysis of the financial systems, we are interested in (i) the aggregate value-added of corporate investments in the two countries and in (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578016
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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions : experimental evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998 - Rev.
One of the long-standing puzzles in economics is why wages do not fall sufficiently in recessions so as to avoid increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their employees to accept lower wages as well? As an...
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Beyond "manucentrism" : some fresh facts about job and worker flows
Bingley, Paul; Eriksson, Tor; Werwatz, Axel; … - 1999
This paper gives a comprehensive picture of job and worker flows for the entire Danish economy. We exploit a unique central administrative register encompassing all employees of all workplaces across all sectors throughout two business cycles. This enables us to broaden the focus of the previous...
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Tax evasion and risky investments in an intertemporal context : an experimental study
Giese, Sebastian; Hoffmann, Antje - 2000
In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax returns which are randomly verified. If tax...
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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany
Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999
decline only slightly upon reemployment. The lowest earnings quartile, in which displacement is concentrated, even gains …
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On the job search and the wage distribution
Christensen, Bent Jesper; Mortensen, Dale; Neumann, … - 2000
The estimates of the structural parameters of a job separations model derived from the theory of on-the-job search are reported in this papers. Given that each employer pays the same wage to all observably equivalent workers and that wage dispersion across employers exists in the sense that...
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