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Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and …

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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility

Guertzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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Earnings Losses After Non-employment Increase With Age

Zwick, Thomas - 2008

This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...

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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009

literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments … strongly work towards reducing wage inequality. The coefficient effect for personal characteristics works towards an increase …

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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2005

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...

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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects...

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Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2006

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298014

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