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Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

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Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Lohnpolitik in Ostdeutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung und präsentiert empirische Evidenz … Tariflohnrigiditäten auf Basis der IABBeschäftigtenstichprobe bestätigen, dass die Lohnflexibilität in Ostdeutschland gewachsen ist. Für … in East Germany since unification. It gathers evidence for the claim that economically non-viable collective agreements …

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill Group Approach

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper analyzes the labor market impact of migration by exploiting variation in the labor supply of foreigners across groups of workers with the same level of education but different work experience. Estimates on the basis of German register data for the period 1975-97 do not confirm the...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Bauer, Thomas; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...

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The Post-Unification German Labor Market

Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in …, however, differs. Shortage of part-time work, service jobs and independent employment indicates that East Germany has failed …

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Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...

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