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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …

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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany … historical roots of the so-called 'standard employment contract' in Germany are investigated. We find that during the pre …

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...

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Labor market risk in Germany

Krebs, Tom; Yao, Yao - 2016

This paper uses annual data drawn from the GSOEP to estimate individual earnings risk (labor market risk) in Germany … been rising in West Germany in the 1990s and have remained at elevated levels in the 2000s. In contrast, labor market risk … in East Germany did not rise. These findings are robust to different sample selection criteria and changes in the …

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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020

This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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