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In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...
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The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies of U.S. gross worker flows have yielded contradictory findings, and it is not easy to get a sense of the key moments of the data. Debates have emerged regarding the implications of these flows for the understanding of the...
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Using the new AWFP dataset that covers all German establishments, we document a substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with...
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This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …
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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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The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...
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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …
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This paper uses annual data drawn from the GSOEP to estimate individual earnings risk (labor market risk) in Germany … been rising in West Germany in the 1990s and have remained at elevated levels in the 2000s. In contrast, labor market risk … in East Germany did not rise. These findings are robust to different sample selection criteria and changes in the …
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