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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

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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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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

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

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...

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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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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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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants

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

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …

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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 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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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry : evidence from Germany

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

in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

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Fiscal effects of minimum wages : an analysis for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …

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