Similar Search Results

Petersberger Erklärung : Anstöße für eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Hagen, Jürgen von - 1998

In this paper six authors propose guidelines for German labor market policy, to overcome current discouragement and lead to a new balance of social security and individual competetiveness. Crucial aspects in this regard should be a reformed tax system based on excise instead of income taxes, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294519

Union strategy and optimal income taxation

Kessing, Sebastian (contributor); Konrad, Kai A. (contributor) - 2005

Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a welfare state in the context of optimal direct taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002706037

How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993

The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517729

Wages and the demand for health : a life cycle analysis

Dustmann, Christian; Windmeijer, Frank - 2000

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand equations. We find evidence of negative transitory wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336871

Peer effects in the workplace

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2013

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … - which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages - circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128815

Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315706

Labor supply shocks, native wages, and the adjustment of local employment

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta; Stuhler, Jan - 2016

-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives …. On average, the supply shock leads to a moderate decline in local native wages and a sharp decline in local native …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520937

In-school work experience, parental allowances, and wages

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181848

Wage growth and job mobility in the UK and Germany

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2005

the group of workers with apprenticeship training that is driving the low returns to labour market experience, while wages …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002772738