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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...

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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of job displacement : the risky job of being back to work

Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano; Serti, Francesco - In: European economic review : EER 61 (2013), pp. 205-216

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East-West German wage convergence - how far have we got?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

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The employment consequences of seniority wages

Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...

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Unemployment, labor market transitions, and residual wage dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

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