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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
for imperfect substitution of native and foreign workers in the production function and consequently small migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803892
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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287335
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Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558552
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Migration response to an immigration shock: Evidence from Russia's aggression against Ukraine
Zuchowski, David - 2023
Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456424
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971674
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290521
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It's a woman's world? Occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Stepanyan, Gayane - 2020
We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do so by examining which task groups and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414828
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332567
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Mismatch in preferences for working from home: Evidence from discrete choice experiments with workers and employers
Lewandowski, Piotr; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Smoter, Mateusz - 2023
We study preferences for remote work using a large-scale discrete choice study with 10,000 workers and 1,500 employers in Poland. Workers value remote work more than employers. On average, workers are willing to sacrifice 2.9% of earnings for remote work, with hybrid work from home (WFH) for 2-3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309871
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Task returns and the gender pay gap
Storm, Eduard - 2023
Using worker-level task data, I explore if women's perceived comparative advantages in interactive tasks can contribute to a reduction in the gender pay gap. I find women receive lower returns to interactive tasks, even within occupations, despite increasing female employment shares in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438424