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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297815
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297414
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098162
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388450
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Computers as stepping stones? Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013207026
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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services
Falk, Martin - 2001
all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297762
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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services
Falk, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098219
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The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957681
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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany
Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2005
The objective of our analysis is to find out whether an increase in working time without pay compensation can be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous: On the one hand, as the increase in working time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297449