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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476363
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297414
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297507
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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics: a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297721
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297774
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Evolution of the East German wage structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020
minor role as does the decline of union coverage for the rise in wage inequality. The adoption of minimum wages in selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388450
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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
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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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/10005059053
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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000
distribution. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …
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