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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian Till; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079408
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158071
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Firms and Early Retirement : Offers that One Does Not Refuse
Bellmann, Lutz - 2007
According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result of maximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit-maximizing behaviour. Firms enter into contracts with their employees that include clauses about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776384
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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany
Naudé, Wim - 2017
Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941243
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945241
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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764473
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346