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With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
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West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants … displacement considerably weakens the intergenerational transmission of human capital between fathers and children, especially at …
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West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants … displacement considerably weakens the intergenerational transmission of human capital between fathers and children, especially at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216752
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
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throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …
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Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …
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The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...
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We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
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This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...
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