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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Expenditure reform in industralised countries: a case study approach
Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Heipertz, Martin; Schuknecht, Ludger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097556
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Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?
Verhofstadt, Elsy; Goebel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a … temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of … temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a direct transition from unemployment to permanent employment. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098327
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An unconditional basic income in the family context: Labor supply and distributional effects
Horstschräer, Julia; Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756424
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985665
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Determinants of flexible work arrangements
Sarbu, Miruna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Flexible work arrangements such as allowing employees to work at home are used in firms, especially since information and communication technologies have become so widespread. Using individual-level data from 10,884 German employees, this paper analyses the determinants of working at home as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957633
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869226
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Youth unemployment in the OECD: The role of institutions
Sachs, Andreas; Smolny, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957666
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Labour market performance in OECD countries: A comprehensive empirical modelling approach of institutional interdependencies
Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
changes in employment protection and the unemployment benefit system the impact on unemployment is mixed across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957711
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957736