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Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1988

This essay sets out a framework for evaluating empirical work in terms of the ability of the data to provide adequate parameter estimates and hypothesis tests about the true underlying structure. Problems of aggregation, representativeness and structural change are discussed in detail. These...

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....

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Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting

Calvo, Paula A.; Lindenlaub, Ilse; Reynoso, Ana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

's Germany and - by identifying important shifts in home production technology towards more complementarity - on the evolution of …

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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes

Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010

This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D'Amuri, Francesco - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging

Boersch-Supan, Axel - 2001

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …

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Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 1996

Starting in 1985, (West) German unions began to reduce standard hours on an industry by industry basis, in an attempt to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is theoretically ambiguous. I test this using both individual...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992 : A Semiparametric Approach

DiNardo, John - 1995

This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density methods to appropriately 'reweighted' samples. The procedure...

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Labor Adjustment Under Different Institutional Structures : A Case Study of Germany and The United States

Houseman, Susan N. - 1993

Like most Western European countries, Germany stringently regulates dismissals and layoffs. Critics contend that this … Germany. We find little evidence that inventories help to buffer demand fluctuations in either country. Our findings suggest …

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A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets : Before and After Unification

Krueger, Alan B. - 1992

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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