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subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...
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all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment …
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This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...
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The objective of our analysis is to find out whether an increase in working time without pay compensation can be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous: On the one hand, as the increase in working time...
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Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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not only true for the average worker, but also for different skill groups. For the median firm, the elasticity is three …
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This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the … skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data … for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The penetration of ICT is measured as the percentage of workers using a …
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of the economy. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill?biased technological change on the …
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of intensified international competition and skill?biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings …
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