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differences of opinion is left, and hence volatility is decreased. …
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We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
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A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go...
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This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
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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...
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Using linked employer-employee data, this study measures and decomposes the differences in the earnings distribution between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human capital characteristics and the effect of firm...
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This paper constitutes a first analysis on stock returns and stock return volatility of energy corporations from the … European utilities, they lead to an appreciation of oil and gas stocks. Most importantly, we show that oil market volatility … negatively affects European oil and gas stocks. In contrast, energy stock volatility is not driven by volatility of the resource …
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-price monetary model and the Mundell-Fleming model. These models are the theoretical basis for the estimation of latent structural …
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We study the pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices for the euro area by estimating vector error correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) we compute a weighted average of the...
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This paper investigates the effects of macroeconomic volatility on nonfinancial firms cash holding behavior. Using an … augmented cash bufferstock model, we demonstrate that an increase in macroeconomic volatility will cause the crosssectional …
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