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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Shifting the burden of corporate taxes : heterogeneity in direct wage incidence

Moore, Nils aus dem - 2014

We contribute to the empirical literature on the effective incidence of corporate income taxation. We focus on the so-called direct incidence via the wage bargaining process. Building on the innovative framework of Arulampalam, Devereux and Maffini (2012), we analyze the importance of various...

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Educational mismatch and mobility

Roller, Christiane; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

not match their educational level, settling for lower wages than their peers. This raises the question, how these …

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …

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Agglomerations, tasks and wage growth

Perl, Maximilian - 2023

Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...

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Risky business : the role of individual risk attitudes in occupational choice

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2010

deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable …

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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach

Görlitz, Katja - 2010

Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The … applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees … who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants …

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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages

Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012

This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …

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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio …

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