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, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of … household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …
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Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk … return to education and the risk involved in this investment. It seems that most of the countries fit the pattern well …: higher risk – higher return. …
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The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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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...
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secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
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This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil …
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In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk …
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This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …
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