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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? A comparison of different data sources and assumptions

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009

minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on …

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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidising market-contracted household work

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Brück, Tilman - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated. …

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Money for Nothing and your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...

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Aging and structural change

Thießen, Ulrich - 2007

Many studies analyzed in depth how aging affects aggregate economic performance. But analyses of these effects on the employment structure are scarce and they do not consider that consumption patterns, the supply of goods and services, and also sectoral labor productivity are all likely to...

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