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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

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How selective are real wage cuts? A micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity...

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

.S.. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. We conclude that although there is evidence …

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Using Methods of Treatment Evaluation to Estimate the Wage Effect of IT Usage

Spitz, Alexandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the data set favors the use of these approaches. The variable of main interest is the...

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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten

Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...

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IT, Organizational Change and Wages

Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...

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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...

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Is there a wage premium or wage discount for flexible hours?

Beblo, Miriam; Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

With flexible work time arrangements firms can quickly adjust to demand fluctuations, while employees may benefit from more time sovereignty. Depending on the specific type of arrangement the accompanying wage effects are ambiguous and have rarely been analyzed. According to the theory of...

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Recycling of eco-taxes, labor market effects and the true cost of labor: a CGE analysis

Löschel, Andreas; Conrad, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

of labor which consists of the market price of labor plus the costs of inputs associated with the employment of a worker …

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