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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...

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Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? A comparative study for Germany and Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, … - 2009

According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper...

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How general is human capital? A task-based approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Returns to type or tenure?

Amann, Roland A.; Klein, Tobias J. - 2007

We analyze the joint determination of wage levels, wage growth and firm tenure. Our analysis is built on estimating a … reduced form for tenure, a structural wage level equation and a structural wage growth equation. We disentangle returns to a … latent type variable from estimates of general returns to tenure and wage gains from job changes. This type is related to …

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Job Stability Trends, Layoffs, and Transitions to Unemployment : An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Mertens, Antje - 2004

first show that the median elapsed tenure declined for men between 1984 and 1999. Second, estimating proportional Cox hazard …

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Job Tenure of Two Cohorts of Young German Men 1979 - 1990: An analysis of the (West-) German Employment Statistic Register Sample concerning multivariate failure times and unobserv...

Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Hornsteiner, Ulrich - 2000

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...

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Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2003

tenure and working in big firms receive severance payments. There is a huge variance in the size of the payments, which can … only partly be explained by tenure, the wage, firm size and the region. At least one quarter of dismissed employees is …

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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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Labor market entry conditions, wages and job mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010

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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