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Evolution of the East German wage structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020
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 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388450
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298666
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299928
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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297700
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings are analyzed for foreigners in Germany with joint consideration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098179
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615602
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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
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The Effects of Changes in the Unemployment Compensation System on the Adoption of IT by Older Workers
Spitz, Alexandra - 2005
changes in the unemployment compensation system enacted in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that ?incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297447
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297532
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297533