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Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for...
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evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for … countercyclical. The empirical framework employed here allows demographic groups to vary in their cyclical sensitivity. In Germany …
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well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational …
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This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The …
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, as well as accessions and separations and their underlying worker flows. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are … the minimum wage reduced worker flows in East Germany, the between approach yields positive effect on labour market … dynamics in West Germany. Our results can be explained by differences between East and West Germany with respect to the bite of …
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statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
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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...
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panel data set for Germany, we follow workers over an extended period of time and provide evidence of both the short …
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Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
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