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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2011

length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set, we estimate the effects of the intensity of agency employment on the … to accept a sizeable wage disadvantage at first, indicating that temporary agency employment might stigmatise workers …. However, agency employment does not seem to leave a long-lasting scar …

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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

Hirsch, Boris - 2016

Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...

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How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2022

We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...

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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021

wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …

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Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany

Jahn, Elke J. - 2021

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working … from a marked wage decline before entering the temporary help sector. Nevertheless, temporary agency employment does not …

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