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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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East-West Trade and Migration : The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321420
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244243
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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - 2012
This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109791
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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs : A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Hof, Stefani - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122973
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
We build a model where firm size is a source of labor market power. The key mechanism is that a granular employer can eliminate its own vacancies from a worker's outside option in the wage bargain. Hence, a granular employer does not compete with itself. We show how wages depend on employment...
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Die Arbeitsmarkteffekte der Zuwanderung : eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland
Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2008) 2, pp. 162-172
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003661821
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Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland : Analysen zu Ausfallprozessen in der Piloterhebung zum ILO-Erwerbsstatus
Fritz, Joachim; Hartmann, Josef; Sacher, Matthias - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2004) 6, pp. 649-662
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002130412
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Erwerbsstruktur und Alterssicherung - Entwicklungslinien des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes seit den 1980er-Jahren
Sacher, Matthias - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2005) 5, pp. 479-495
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