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The wage performance of immigrant women : full-time jobs, part-time jobs, and the role of selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339685
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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 … random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf and Kramarz … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317478
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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : an exploration of German labor market flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … and re-employment, estimation of a nonlinear regression model reveals additional aspects of cyclical sensitivity. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317480
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Industry wage differentials revisited : a longitudinal comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318606
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Tobacco and alcohol : complements or substitutes? ; a structural model approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2008
explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748872
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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413370
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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?
New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125637
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336861
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336860
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Disentangling treatment effects of Polish active labor market policies : evidence from matched samples
Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
conditional treatment effect estimation can add considerable insight to the interpretation of results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403475