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Wages and the demand for health : a life cycle analysis

Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage...

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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Temporary migration and economic assimilation

Dustmann, Christian - 2000

In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants' behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations where the migrant chooses when to return. I then illustrate the consequences both types of...

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Industrial relations and the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers within establishments : an empirical analysis with data of manufacturing firms

Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000

Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...

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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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Educational mismatch and wages in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 1999

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a …

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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : an exploration of German labor market flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly … individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … labor market performance of women and of unskilled workers is not dramatically different from that of the average worker. …

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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Money for nothing and your chips for free? : the anatomy of the PC wage differential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

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