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Why do firms recruit internationally? Result from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002

The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...

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Labor Market Entry and Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Weber, Andrea; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...

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Labor market policy in Austria during the crises

Hofer, Helmut; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

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Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates

Euwals, Rob; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job … durations, and post-apprenticeship wages are all increasing functions of training intensity. Some implications for the ongoing …

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Income and happiness: New results from generalized threshold and sequential models

Boes, Stefan; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the most well-known representatives being the ordered logit and the ordered probit. However, these models restrict the marginal probability effects by design, and therefore limit the...

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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits: An econometric analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...

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Relative status and satisfaction

Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...

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