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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016

of immigrants and provides information on language skills. We find significant effects of age at migration on educational … attainment and a critical age of migration around age 6. The educational attainment of female immigrants responds more strongly …

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

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Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages: New insights from a survey experiment

Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018

The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in minimum wages to about 6,000 plants in Germany and asks the personnel managers about their...

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Uncovered workers in plants covered by collective bargaining: Who are they and how do they fare?

Hirsch, Boris; Lentge, Philipp; Schnabel, Claus - 2022

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which workers in firms covered by collective bargaining agreements still individually benefit from...

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Is there a union wage premium in Germany and which workers benefit most?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of...

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