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The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Büchel, Felix - 2000
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262540
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Is the erosion thesis overblown? Evidence from the orientation of uncovered employers
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2012
orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set under sectoral bargaining. Yet importantly, at a … indirect coverage, still less of the degree to which wages are aligned in practice. Using nationally representative data for … 2000-2010, this paper charts the extent of orientation in the uncovered sector, and tracks average wages across bargaining …
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446629
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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