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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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'Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? : Evaluating the German experience

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497902

Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

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More hours, more jobs? : the employment effects of longer working hours

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550676

The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been "rigid" in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403026

Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification nased on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405823

'Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

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Die Gewerbesteuer als ungerechtfertigte "Großbetriebssteuer"? : Eine empirische Analyse

Maiterth, Ralf - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 123 (2003) 4, pp. 545-562

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