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Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
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results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between -0.28 to -0.46, once we control for …
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results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between -0.28 to -0.46, once we control for …
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(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …
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This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a …
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effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …
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capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …
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-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth rates of unskilled and medium-skilled workers via higher job … destruction and separation rates, whereas the employment patterns of skilled workers are not affected significantly. New …
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(HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of … adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage structure within firms. The empirical results suggest that, depending on the … particular practice, flexible workplace systems benefit employees through higher wages. HPWOs further increase within firm wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703327
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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