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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey
Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …
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Qualifikation, Beschäftigung und technischer Fortschritt - Weitere empirische Evidenz mit den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
Für die Bundesrepublik und insbesondere für Baden-Württemberg mit seiner hohen Industriedichte und dem großen Anteil innovativer Unternehmen ist das Verständnis der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Beschäftigung, Qualifikation und technischem Fortschritt von zentraler Bedeutung....
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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098037
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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957705
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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation
Patuelli, Roberto; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation and economic growth. They could open the way to many radically new applications, which would form the basis of innovative products. In this context, it seems all the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097554
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …
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How selective are real wage cuts? A micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data
Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957723
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097827
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
these two groups in Germany. The estimates show a substantial gap for both groups with respect to natives. Discarding … Germany is an important component of economic integration and degrees obtained abroad are valued less. …
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