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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533544
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
GMM estimator show that these predictions hold, but only the effects for mean employment rates and employment inequality …
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also …This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536037
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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...
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What old stagers could teach us: Examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...
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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?
Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957710
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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097879
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Occupational and locational substitution: measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility
Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097969
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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098225
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Gender differences in German wage mobility
Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … higher level of wage inequality and a lower level of wage mobility than men in both parts of the country throughout the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957601