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Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …
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We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
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This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
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In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a translog specification of the skill technology, properly anchored treatment effect estimates are...
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within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …
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individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …
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into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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(measured by appointments to top management). First, we confirm the beneficial effect of acquiring general human capital …
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This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
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In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …
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