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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

time is considered rather than contractual work time. It is argued that the restrictive labor market institutions in place …

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Training, wages and a missing school graduation cohort

Dorner, Matthias; Görlitz, Katja - 2020

This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...

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Heterogeneous preferences, spousal interaction, and couples' time-use

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2024

We study the role of heterogeneous preferences at the spousal level and that of spousal mutual insurance against wage shocks for couples’ labor supply in a time-use model. We estimate the model for couples in the German Time-Use Survey with Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific...

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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

I show that workers update expectations about job search and salary growth when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's announcement to build a large production plant in Racine County, Wisconsin. Exposure to positive news leads to an...

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and longlasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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