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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms

Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - 2004

establishment data for Germany. Following the approach by Battese and Coelli (1995), we estimate a stochastic production frontier …

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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

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Do hours restrictions matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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Lower wages for less hours? A simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Wolf, Elke - 2000

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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How much does a year off cost? Estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...

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Reassessing the Impact of High Performance Workplaces

Zwick, Thomas; Wolf, Elke - 2002

both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity using establishment panel data for Germany. We show that increasing employee … participation enhances firm productivity in Germany, whereas incentive systems do not foster productivity. Our results further …

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