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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...

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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 unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Paying more than necessary? The wage cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010

Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....

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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality

Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and countryspecific institutions are...

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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Schnabel, Claus - 2015

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly … different rates of unemployment. These differences may reflect observable and unobservable characteristics of economic actors as …

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Low-wage employment versus unemployment: which one provides better prospects for women?

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …

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Human capital and growth: Specification matters

Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

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Women move differently: Job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

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Real and nominal wage rigidities and the rate of inflation : evidence from West German micro data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2003

due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas … the opposite holds for nominal rigidity. Overall, the incidence of wage rigidity, which accelerates unemployment growth …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation. …

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