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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097995
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097724
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097739
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098074
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Gleicher Lohn für gleiche Arbeit? Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft und Lohnstruktur in Westdeutschland 1985?1997
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Gewerkschaftsmacht und der Lohnstruktur in und zwischen Segmenten des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes in den Jahren 1985 bis 1997 auf Basis der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097651
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All Quiet on the Wage Front?
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage inequality is lower in the private than in the public sector. Our test results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097547
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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Lembcke, Alexander C.; Kohn, Karsten; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097975
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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
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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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of STEM subjects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957739
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269119