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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....
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with high likelihood of being outsourced. And, when comparing wages of direct and outsourced employees, it is possible to … notice that outsourced (with high likelihood) face a decrease in their wages, in most of the situations examined. …
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In this paper, we study whether performance feedback can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee retention. Feedback on the relative performance may affect individual job search behavior differently depending on workers' relative rank among their peers. In line with these...
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technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment …
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the …
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. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
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