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manufacturing jobs in Germany is far lower if the measurement of employment is based on the occupation of the worker. About 52% of …
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We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...
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’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany …
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In this paper we discuss determinants of firm survival and growth in Germany within its pre-1989 boundaries. We develop …
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Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping effects may lead to severe biases in estimated...
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War mit der Vereinigung Deutschlands ein starker Anstieg in der Mitgliederzahl der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland …
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This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …
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