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Flexible work systems and the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001 - revised: July 2002

(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …

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Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 …

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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

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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 large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry : evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012

This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost … some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher … collectively agreed wages are more strongly in favour of minimum wages if union coverage is low and the mark-up of union wage rates …

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Portuguese migrants in the German labor market : performance and self-selection

Bauer, Thomas K.; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vogler, Michael; … - 1998

work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …

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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is...

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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using industry level data for 18 years (1977-1994) we...

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Immigration policy in integrated national economies

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the receiving countries. This would also serve best the...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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