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paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … the case of Germany, which has displayed a significantly lower increase in its labour force than its trade partners … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …
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decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a … similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … education attainment and wages over time, we put a particular focus on changes of the task composition, the chances of entering …
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Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …
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We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …
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