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Does employer learning vary by occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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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

random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf/Kramarz (1997 …Aufbauend auf humankapital-theoretischen Überlegungen wird auf Basis der Individual-Daten des Sozio …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …

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Glass ceiling effect and earnings : the gender pay gap in managerial positions in Germany

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2009

Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Moving up a gear : the impact of compressing instructional time into fewer years of schooling

Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - 2015 - This version: February 10, 2015

Policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total instructional time unchanged. Employing...

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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

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Firm size, wages and unobserved skills : evidence from dual job holdings in the UK

Muravyev, Alexander (contributor) - 2007

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer sizewage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers using longitudinal data and the fixed effects estimator thus relying on a...

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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany

Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - 2009

There is by now a lot of evidence showing a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage and earnings inequality during the 2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts for years beyond 2000. Using data from the German...

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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? : a comparison of different data sources and assumptions

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...

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