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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996
The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's,...
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Ökonomische Diskriminierung von Frauen - eine volkswirtschaftliche Verschwendung : ein Besprechungsaufsatz
Baumberger, Jörg - 1994
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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996
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Empirical macromodels under test : a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions
Buscher, Herbert S. (contributor) - 1998
In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...
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Is the German apprenticeship system a panacea for the US labor market?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …
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Collective bargaining and spillovers in local labor markets
Bassier, Ihsaan - 2022
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Union-nonunion wage gap : some unexpected findings in Brazilian labour market
Campos, André Gambier; Moura, Ana Carolina - 2017
This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. However, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its...
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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