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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … endogeneity of naturalization most coefficients decline in magnitude and lose statistical significance: male immigrants' labor …

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Labor supply and automation innovation

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020

While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an...

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Between here and there: Immigrant fertility patterns in Germany

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2011

Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … variable. The results favor the socialization hypothesis holding that immigrants follow childbearing norms dominant in their …

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Seniority in Germany: New Evidence on Returns to Tenure for Male Full-time Workers

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2007

This study uses recent data taken from the German Socioeconomic Panel (2002-2006) to evaluate the extent of and heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in East and West Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find significantly different wage patterns in East- and West...

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The East German Wage Structure after Transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure of East and West German wages...

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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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Exporters and wage inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang; Schmerer, Hans-Joerg; Winkler, Erwin - 2015

We analyze the evolution of the exporter wage premium (EWP) during the Great Recession and the resulting impact on wage inequality in Germany. Our results show that the EWP declined sharply between 2007 and 2008 and stagnated afterwards. This pattern is due to exporters starting to adjust their...

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Is there a glass ceiling over Germany?

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

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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How does the position in business group hierarchies affect workers' wages?

Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2021

We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...

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High-wage workers and high-productivity firms: A regional view on matching in Germany

Ehrl, Philipp - 2014

differences in matching quality cannot be attributed to the local density and unemployment rate. …

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