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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job-to-job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...

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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Zwick, Thomas - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but can not look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? - a Cge Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2008

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory, the outcome is in general …

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2016

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …

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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?

Wright, David - 2015

Extending working life is an objective for many nations. However, the UK government has recently reported only modest improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early retirement much faster than the UK since 2003. This...

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Has atypical work become typical in Germany? Country case studies on labour market segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or dualization of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Work Hours Constraints and Health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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