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Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Business taxation and wages : evidence from individual panel data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - 2012

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

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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...

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What explains the urban wage premium? : sorting, non-portable or portable agglomeration effects?

Frings, Hanna; Kamb, Rebecca - 2021

Using administrative data for West Germany, we study the relative importance of different determinants of the urban wage premium. More explicitly, we distinguish worker sorting, as well as portable and non-portable agglomeration effects. Our results indicate that worker sorting explains about...

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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

I show that workers update expectations about job search and salary growth when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's announcement to build a large production plant in Racine County, Wisconsin. Exposure to positive news leads to an...

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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

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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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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Business taxation and wages : evidence from individual panel data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H.R. - 2012

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The effect of ethnic clustering on migrant integration in Germany

Schaffner, Sandra; Treude, Barbara - 2014

großer Bedeutung. Hier lässt sich häufig beobachten, dass Migranten gleicher oder ähnlicher Herkunft gemeinsam in der … Hinweis darauf, ob diese ethnische Segregation förderlich oder hinderlich für die Integration von Migranten ist. Insbesondere … Segregation auf den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten analysiert. Dabei wird der Arbeitsmarkterfolg als Erwerbsbeteiligung zum …

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023

We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...

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