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The wage policy of firms : comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data

Grund, Christian - 2002

The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...

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The changing distribution of job satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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Industry wage differentials revisited : a longitudinal comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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