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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2005

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to … differences between temporary and permanent migrants.Our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between … are taken into account. The results of a decomposition analysis indicate that differences in the savings rate between …

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Anreizwirkungen befristeter Arbeitsverträge

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

Befristete Arbeitsverträge ermöglichen es Arbeitgebern, die Eignung potentiell neuer Mitarbeiter zu testen. Mit der nachgewiesenen Eigenschaft von befristeten Beschäftigungs-verhältnissen als Karrieretrittbrett ergibt sich so für befristet angestellte Arbeitnehmer ein Anreiz, mehr...

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Incentive effects of bonus payments : evidence from an international company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual ''surprise'' bonus payment. The other is a more...

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Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003

Using data for the 1990 ?s,this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan.Our estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50%of the total returns to schooling.We further find that sheepskin effect are only important for workers in...

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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2004

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities.We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Anreizwirkung befristeter Arbeitsverträge

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

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Determinanten von Item-Nonresponse in Umfragen

Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2003

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Incentive effects of bonus payments : evidence from an international company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

"This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002262317