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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Young innovative companies: The new high-growth firms?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2012

innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU … YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … R&D intensive (R&D intensity > 15%). In our estimations, we also take the underlying distribution of the growth …

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After the Death of Inflation: Will Fiscal Drag Survive?

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000

lay the theoretical base followed by a descriptive view on the relation between inflation, growth and tax revenues in the …

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Fiscal stimulus and distortionary taxation

Drautzburg, Thorsten; Uhlig, Harald - 2011

We quantify the fiscal multipliers in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. We extend the benchmark Smets-Wouters (Smets and Wouters, 2007) New Keynesian model, allowing for credit-constrained households, the zero lower bound, government capital and distortionary...

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Economic Development and CO2 Emissions: A Nonparametric Panel Approach

Azomahou, Théophile; Laisney, François; van Phu, Nguyen - 2005

We examine the empirical relation between CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita during the period 1960-1996, using a panel of 100 countries. Relying on the nonparametric poolability test of Baltagi et al. (1996), we find evidence of structural stability of the relationship. We then specify...

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Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance

Osterloh, Steffen - 2010

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived … growth negatively; those which proposed incentives for business as well as technology and infrastructure had a positive …

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...

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Die Anatomie des Berufswechsels: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme auf Basis der BIBB/IAB-Daten 1998/1999

Spitz, Alexandra; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2004

Unter dem Stichwort "Patchwork-Biografien" wird die Tatsache, dass ein großer Teil der abhängig Beschäftigten ihren erlernten Beruf nicht mehr ausüben, in jüngster Zeit viel diskutiert. Diese Studie liefert einen empirischen Beitrag zur Anatomie der Berufswechsel für westdeutsche Männer...

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