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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
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