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Workplaces in the primary economy and wage pressure in the secondary labor market
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2002
This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model in which firms in the primary economy have to create workplaces prior to production and product market competition. For this, we introduce the endogenous sunk cost approach with two-stage decisions of firms from IO in the macro-labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412017
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Dual labour markets and (lack of) on-the-job training : PIAAC evidence from Spain and other EU countries
Cabrales, Antonio; Dolado, Juan J.; Mora Villarrubia, … - 2014
Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and temporary workers leads to large differentials in on-the-job training (OTJ) against the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436154
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From the dual apprenticeship system to a dual labor market? : the German high-skill equilibrium and the service economy
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
possible due to a less regulated institutional environment. -- Service sector ; Germany ; dual labor market ; low-skilled work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860657
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Whatever works : dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010
non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985730
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The unexpected appearance of a new German model
Eichhorst, Werner - 2012
inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … work force and increasing use of non-standard types of employment in less specifically skilled occupations. -- Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548860
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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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Workforce segmentation in Germany : from the founding era to the present time
Eichhorst, Werner; Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2014
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436155
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The unequal incidence of non-standard employment across occupational groups : an empirical analysis of post-industrial labour markets in Germany and Europe
Marx, Paul - 2011
; occupational groups ; post-industrial labour markets ; Germany …
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Flexible work systems and the structure of wages : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2001 - revised: July 2002
(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403441
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German job mobility and wages
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework and the industry approach. Using German panel data, changes of workplaces within the firm as well as between the firms are carefully separated from occupational changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294535