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Money for nothing and your chips for free? : the anatomy of the PC wage differential
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf and Kramarz … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317478
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Does future PC use determine our wages today? : evidence from German panel data
Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2002
Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages confirms the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406583
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Industry wage differentials revisited : a longitudinal comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318606
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959934
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529524
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Industrial relations and the wage differentials between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers within establishments : an empirical analysis with data of manufacturing firms
Hübler, Olaf; Meyer, Wolfgang - 2000
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336867
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been "rigid" in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403026
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670643
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130116
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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives
Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320