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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The results indicate that the completion of a minimum level of …. Women enjoy a higher earnings premium for education than men and though they face overall a higher earnings uncertainty …
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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The results indicate that the completion of a minimum level of …. Women enjoy a higher earnings premium for education than men and though they face overall a higher earnings uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098059
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … with respect to the impact of family background and cohorts. However, there are significant dissimilarities depending on … the stage observed in the educational career, in particular with respect to gender differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298109
Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific...
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This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and the West and East of Germany, we first derive theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297874
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412519
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316118
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957756
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and the West and East of Germany, we first derive theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098017