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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O. - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930943
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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Bossler, Mario - 2020
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840443
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945241
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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957484
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122112
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Immigration and Structural Change : Evidence from Post-War Germany
Braun, Sebastian - 2012
ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104055
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20 Years of German Unification : Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155542
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159511
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Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve : A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions
Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2015
The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009494
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021
effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318673