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The empirical literature has shown on numerous occasions that immigrants and their offspring fare worse economically … than natives with comparable observable characteristics. This study addresses youth unemployment as an important … determinant of youths' later labor market success by looking at the determinants of the hazard of first unemployment after age 17 …
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This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage …
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few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
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The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the longterm distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …
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This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...
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This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991)....
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This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency. I investigate East and West Germany and the public sector separately to account for potential heterogeneities in wage gaps. I apply unconditional and conditional quantile...
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In this paper, I argue that there is an inefficiently high number of job creators in a model with labour market imperfections and an endogenous decision to become a job creator. I therefore augment the standard labour matching model developed by Mortensen and Pissarides by an endogenous job...
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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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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …
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