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It is now a commonplace that the unfunded public pension systems of many OECD countries will run into severe financing problems in the coming decades due to a dramatically increasing pensioner/worker ratio. While this diagnosis is completely undisputed, there is still a vigorous debate on the...
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unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child … administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions. We use this model to analyze both the male …
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individuals end up varies among immigrants even from the same country. Moreover, the quest for ethnic identity affects women and … immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially … affects the labor force participation of men and women. Women who exhibit the integrated identity are more likely to work than …
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large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
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This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s …, while the US and Germany experienced similar changes at the top of the distribution throughout the 80s and 90s, the patterns …
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Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …
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This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employer-employee data that cover the...
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