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10 years after: EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291411
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The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278796
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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269057
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277963
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278590
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Differentiation and performance: An empirical investigation on the incentive effects of bonus plans
Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of this behavior empirically. We first show in a simple model that the perceived degree of past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282509
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond: First evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro-zone …
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Following Germany's Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
di Giovanni, Julian; McCrary, Justin; von Wachter, Till - 2005
policy was more independent of Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262211
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Migrant ethnic identity: concept and policy implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268255
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Productivity and size of the export market: evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268438