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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297934
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
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close relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable …
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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...
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300009