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the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …
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This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year...
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training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …
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unobserved heterogeneity? We examine this issue with three large cross-sectional surveys from Germany. First, we confirm that the … estimated wage differentials associated with computer use in Germany are very similar to the U.S. differential. Second, using …
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Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the …
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In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …
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