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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie - 2018
This paper examines the determinants of gross labor flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage … and significant. The paper may thus be able to explain why earlier attempts to explain skill selectivity in Europe within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940317
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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification : (East) Germany in Transition
Gernandt, Johannes - 2008
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724575
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Student Employment : Advantage or Handicap for Academic Achievement?
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2018
We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a source of exogenous variation in the probability or being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936617
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Does it Pay to Move? Returns to Regional Mobility at the Start of the Career for Tertiary Education Graduates
Maier, Michael Florian - 2016
probit model to account for the dependency between the migration decisions for tertiary education and for the first job. In … order to account for self-selection with respect to migration decisions, we exploit variation in the availability of … university places at the regional level. Our results show that there is significant dependency between migration decisions made …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982708
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2018
Immigrants consist of foreigners and citizens with migration background. We analyze the wage gap between natives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212560
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2008
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063169
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Earnings of University Dropouts Across Europe
Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2021
This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250810
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
effect. Also, the effect of immigration on support for redistribution has not been studied for Germany - Europe's largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197856
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Occupational and Locational Substitution : Measuring the Effect of Occupational and Regional Mobility
Aldashev, Alisher - 2009
The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208510
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What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - 2008
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726912