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Firm specific wage spread in Germany: Decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006

part of the difference in the wage spread between firms in the two parts of the country results from lower wages paid by …

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Are CEOs in family firms paid like bureaucrats? Evidence from Bayesian and frequentist analyses

Block, Jörn Hendrich - 2008

The relationship between CEO pay and performance has been much analyzed in the management and economics literature. This study analyzes the structure of executive compensation in family and non-family firms. In line with predictions of agency theory, it is found that the share of base salary is...

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Monitoring, information technology and the labor share

Schneider, Dorothee - 2011

that data trends for the labor share, wages in effciency units, and labor in effciency units over capital can be matched by …

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The Bologna Process: How student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland - 2006

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna Process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a competition effect that raises quality; 2) a free rider effect that lowers...

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …

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Stock markets and business cvycle comovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence from spectral analysis

Ritschl, Albrecht; Uebele, Martin - 2005

especially before 1890. We find impressive comovement between the stock market and nominal wages, a sub-series of Hoffmann …

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The stochastic fluctuation of the quantile regression curve

Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Song, Song - 2008

Let (X1, Y1), . . ., (Xn, Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the unknown p-quantile regression curve of Y on X. A quantile-smoother ln(x) is a localised, nonlinear estimator of l(x). The strong uniform consistency rate is established under general conditions. In many applications it is necessary...

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East Germany´s Wage Gap : A non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>

East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap … terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of establishment-specific factors - such as sectoral affiliation and …

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Biases in estimates of the smoking wage penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2006

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...

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Bye bye, GI: The impact of the US military drawdown on local German labor markets

aus dem Moore, Jan Peter; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2012

unemployment, whereas migration patterns and wages were not affected. …

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