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Financial Development and Export Concentration

Unger, Florian - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …

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Decomposing the large firm wage premium in Germany

Lochner, Benjamin; Seth, Stefan; Wolter, Stefanie - 2020

We use an extensive,matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...

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Age, wage and productivity

van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...

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Earnings Dynamics in Germany

Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021

This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Wages of migrant and native employees in Germany : new light on an old issue

Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - 2019

The German workforce is expected to decline in future and labour-oriented immigration should counteract labour shortages. Fair wages in Germany set incentives for foreigners to immigrate there. Therefore this paper aims to shed new light on the decomposition of the wage gap between foreign and...

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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020

arbeitgebenden Unternehmen aus Schätzungen von Produktionsfunktionen auf der Firmenebene ab. Wir berücksichtigen dabei insbesondere …

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Regional age structure and young workers' wages

Garloff, Alfred; Roth, Duncan - 2016

This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers. Assuming that differently aged workers are only imperfectly substitutable, economic theory predicts that individuals in larger age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis...

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Panel evidence on within-occupation change in job tasks and individual wages

Müller, Gerrit - 2024

Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...

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