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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of … the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is …

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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper … jobs, and of the overall efficiency of job creation. Some crucial determinants of the overall matching efficiency are …

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High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …

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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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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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