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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred - 2008

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features …

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The Phillips Curve and NAIRU Revisited : New Estimates for Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

This paper provides new estimates of a time-varying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Biewen, Martin - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

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Heterogeneous Returns to Training an Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2018

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

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The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2019

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

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Skill Formation, Career Planning, and Transitions : The Last Two Years in a German Lower Track Secondary School

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2014

In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take …

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2008

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Unemployment Durations in West Germany Before and after the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2008

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

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