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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?

McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.

-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627289

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620769

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 … undereducated workers enjoy higher rates of relative wage growth. Our results cast serious doubt on the career mobility model, at … and upward career mobility, the plausibility of our results is supported by the finding that overeducated workers have …

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On the wages of temporary help service workers in Germany

Kvasnicka, Michael; Werwatz, Axel - 2002

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, we present evidence showing that average male real...

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Self-rated and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from german panel data

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2002

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as...

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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...

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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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Testing the purchasing power parity in pooled systems of error correction models

Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2000

In this paper we test the purchasing power parity for the post Bretton Woods period for 18 main industrial countries. As base currencies we use alternatively the Deutsche mark, the Japanese yen, and the US dollar. We employ error correction models for single countries and on the level of pooled...

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Uncovered interest parity : what can we learn from panel data?

Breitung, Jörg; Brüggemann, Ralf - 2000

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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth

Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001

whymore inequality can be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Our framework displays multiple … pattern of income distribution and local versus social spillovers ratio under which inequality and segregation persist in the … long run. -- growth ; Community formation ; human capital ; redistribution ; social mobility …

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