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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016

participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

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Rising wage inequality in Germany: Increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; de Lazzer, Jakob - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

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Changes in Union Membership Over Time: A Panel Analysis for West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Beck, Martin - 2003

Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been …

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Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … empirical analysis attempts to discriminate between the two hypotheses for West Germany analyzing the relationship between wage …

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Imputation Rules to Improve the Education Variable in the IAB Employment Subsample

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Völter, Robert - 2005

The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings : missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the variable. They mainly use the multiple education information available in the data because...

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …

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