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In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual … level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects … organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
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In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation … changes in workplaces that have occurred in recent decades, IT users would be worse off in terms of wages had they not started …
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There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production factors when firms from the service sector are faced...
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Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung von Tarifverträgen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen sowie deren Wirkungen auf die Beschäftigungspolitik im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen. Der empirische Teil basiert auf der ZEW/Creditreform Konjunkturumfrage bei unternehmensnahen...
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can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a … survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for explanations based on collective wage agreements and on efficency wages …
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. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in …
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Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower...
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accounts using GSOEP data from 2002. We compare wages of employees with and without work time accounts by propensity score … matching. Our results indicate that work time accountees receive higher wages on average, thus suggesting an employer …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
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