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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Wolf, Elke - 2001

-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …

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Welche Bedeutung haben Unternehmenscharakteristika und regionales Umfeld für die Beschäftigungsdynamik? : eine mikroökonometrische Analyse für das ostdeutsche Verarbeitende Gewerbe...

Steil, Fabian; Wolf, Elke - 1997

In this paper, we analyse the influence of firm characteristics and the regional environment on employment growth of East German manufacturing firms between 1992 and 1996. Our results confirm the negative impact of firm size and age on employment growth found in various studies for several...

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Welche Bedeutung haben Unternehmenscharakteristika und regionales Umfeld für die Beschäftigungsdynamik? : e. mikroökonometrische Analyse für d. ostdeutsche verarbeitende Gewerbe...

Steil, Fabian; Wolf, Elke - 1997

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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