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The effect of broadband internet on establishments' employment growth : evidence from Germany

Stockinger, Bastian - 2017

This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth. The analysis uses data for Germany in the years 2005-2009, when broadband was introduced in rural regions of Western Germany and in large parts of Eastern Germany. Technical...

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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Zapf, Ines - 2015

In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015

Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that...

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Factor structural time series models for official statistics with an application to hours worked in Germany

Weigand, Roland; Wanger, Susanne; Zapf, Ines - 2015

We introduce a high-dimensional structural time series model, where co-movement between the components is due to common factors. A two-step estimation strategy is presented, which is based on principal components in differences in a first step and state space methods in a second step. The...

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Long-run processes of geographical concentration and dispersion : evidence from Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2015

This paper analyzes the evolution of geographical concentration in the West German manufacturing, service, and knowledge-intensive sectors over a time period of 30 years. Drawing on detailed plant data of 187 industries from 1980 to 2010, we observe substantial concentration that is highest in...

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Reallocation patterns across occupations

Bauer, Anja - 2015

Using high-quality administrative data, I analyze workers' opportunity costs of reallocation across occupations by measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage changes after reallocation and find that workers who...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - 2014

deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

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Endogenizing take-up of social assistance in a microsimulation model : a case study for Germany

Wiemers, Jürgen - 2015

Microsimulation studies typically assume that all entitlements to means-tested benefits are actually claimed by eligible households, despite a large body of research that suggests that take-up rates are substantially below 100%. The assumption of full take-up tends to exaggerate the simulated...

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Decomposing the large firm wage premium in Germany

Lochner, Benjamin; Seth, Stefan; Wolter, Stefanie - 2020

We use an extensive,matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...

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