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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...
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volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers …
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having current offline employment moderates the relationship between skill value and skill distance. …
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ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of … is far less pronounced than generally perceived. Manufacturing and service employment numbers based on the occupations of … workers deviate markedly from the employment numbers based on the industry classification of employers. The decline in …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature on endogenous inequality using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, in the presence of borrowing constraints. These models are characterized by a continuum of steady...
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Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this …
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This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...
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