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In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …
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distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …
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groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …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 …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …
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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
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activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
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This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …
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, revenues and hence profits will change. We quantify the employment effects of an economy-wide increase in weekly normal hours …
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