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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …

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The role of worker flows in the dynamics and distribution of UK unemployment

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2011

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Natural and cyclical unemployment in Latvia: new insights from the beveridge curve model

Krasnopjorovs, Oļegs - 2015

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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IT capital, job content and educational attainment

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003

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Historic sex-ratio imbalances predict female participation in the market for politicians

Grant, Iris; Kesternich, Iris; Steckenleiter, Carina; … - 2018

We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the market for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women...

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Reputational concerns and advice-seeking at work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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Parental leave, worker substitutability, and firms' employment

Huebener, Mathias; Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; … - 2022

Motherhood and parental leave are frequent causes of worker absences and employment interruptions, yet we know little about their effects on firms. Based on linked employer-employee data from Germany, we examine how more generous leave benefits affect firm-level employment and hiring decisions....

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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution

Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023

We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...

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