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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262319
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Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data
Kohns, Stephan - 2001
Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268746
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269817
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273099
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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion: explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness"?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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