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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2008
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
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Job Loss and Household Labor Supply Adjustments in Developing Countries : Evidence From Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband’s or father’s job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However,...
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The Livelihood Effects of Industrialization on Displaced Households : Evidence from Falta Special Economic Zone, West Bengal
Paul, Saumik - 2014
Much of the debate on industrialization and displacement has, so far, focused on the optimum compensation for affected households. Our recently concluded study, comprising of a sample of 1017 households including 630 affected (displaced and land acquired) and 387 unaffected households, looks at...
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment Using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2014
Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...
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Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes : The Linked Personnel Panel
Steffes, Susanne - 2015
This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists, the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering establishments in Germany and designed for quantitative empirical HR research. The...
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008
returns to investment in skills is an elaboration of the model of skill formation from Cunha, Heckman et al. (2006) over the …
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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers
Schleife, Katrin - 2014
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm's proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm's IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...
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Evolution of the East German Wage Structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2021
We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...
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Age and Skill Bias of Trade Liberalisation? Heterogeneous Employment Effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2015
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
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Noncognitive Skills in Economics : Models, Measurement, and Empirical Evidence
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Thiel, Hendrik - 2018
noncognitive skills in this context. The paper at hand provides an overview on the growing but inuential literature in the field …. The composition and impact of noncognitive skills on certain outcomes are usually less familiar to economists and …, moreover, in comparison to cognition, these skills exhibit a larger scope for interventions. Therefore, the text should serve …
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