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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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This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …
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This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The …, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and within educational levels wage inequality changed little over time … Germany. …
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large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
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We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …
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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …
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In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation …
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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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structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features …
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Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
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