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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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German Job Mobility and Wages

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

framework. Firm tenure is no relevant determinant of earnings. Past mobility and sectoral and regional factors determine …

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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status, and schooling levels. In general, migrants with...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : Native men, turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … Treiman prestige scale scores increase their earnings, for self-employed immigrant men it is the longevity of the business … that makes a difference. Everything else equal, the earnings of self-employed Turks are no different than the earnings of …

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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China's latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

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