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Varying youth cohort effects on regional labour market outcomes in Germany
Graaff, Thomas de; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018
We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does schooling provide earnings insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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Risk attitude and wage growth : replication and reconstruction
Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009
We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831597
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Demographic aging and employment dynamics in German regions : modeling regional heterogeneity
Graaff, Thomas de; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Ozgen, Ceren - 2017
economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is …
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