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Computers as stepping stones? Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013207026
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298023
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097894
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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299597
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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567609
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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
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297815
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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023
This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms' and workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446339
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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
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297321
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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297478