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The nonlinear link between height and wages : an empirical investigation

Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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The effect of job displacement on the transitions to employment and early retirement for older workers in four European countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2007

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel (contributor); … - 2007

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Short-run and long-term effects of childbirth on mothers' employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European Community Househol...

Geyer, Johannes (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …

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Is there a trade-off between job security and wages in Germany and the UK?

Hübler, Dominik (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006

This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is … , Germany ; UK …

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008

provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK …

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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany

Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009

on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … Germany who lose ground on other groups. -- Identification ; social interaction ; reflection problem ; empirical analysis …

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Real wage cyclicality in Germany and the UK : new results using panel data

Peng, Fei (contributor); Siebert, William S. (contributor) - 2007

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany but not East Germany … public sector in neither country. Thus real wage flexibility is similar in the two countries, apart from East Germany …

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …

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