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A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets : Before and after Unification

Krueger, Alan B. - 2009

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...

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The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply : A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation

Krueger, Alan B.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

This paper uses aggregate birth year/calendar year level data derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the effect of Social Security wealth on the labor supply of older men in the 1970s and 1980s. The analysis focuses on the 1977 amendments to the Social Security Act t which...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2022

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Beyond Becker : Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

In this paper, we survey non-competitive theories of training. With competitive labor markets, firms never pay for investments in general training, whereas when labor markets are imperfect, firm-sponsored training arises as an equilibrium phenomenon. We discuss a variety of evidence which...

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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany

Krueger, Alan B.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings : Evidence from the German Short School Year

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2021

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …

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Continuous Training in Germany

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …

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