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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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Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the IAB Establishment Panel

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

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Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - 2003

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to … results obtained from our estimates indicate that vocational training does not significantly affect the matching process and …

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2005

justifies the application of a matching estimator and allows to account for individual (group-specific) and regional effect … decisions which have to be made during implementation of the matching estimator, e.g. choosing the matching algorithm or …

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New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany : a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

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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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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

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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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