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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

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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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000

We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...

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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016

Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999

Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after unification. Our paper presents results from the estimation...

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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

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