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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281

The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

survey?, a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297306

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

Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005

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

Kuckulenz, Anja; Maier, Michael - 2006

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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Continuing Vocational Training in Germany: A Comparative Study Using 3 German Data Set

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training …

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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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