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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry: A comparison between Germany and the U.S.
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018
In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902070
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Trade shocks and social mobility: The intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil
César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import competition in Brazilian industries on individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426908
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297646
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Gender wage discrimination and trade openness. Prejudiced employers in an open industry
Yahmed, Sarra Ben - 2017
I introduce taste-based discrimination in a trade model with imperfect competition and provide an explanation for the heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. Firms operate in an oligopoly where prejudiced employers can use their rents to pay men a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745880
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097995
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits: Evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420393
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Completed fertility effects of family policy measures: Evidence from a life-cycle model
Abiry, Raphael; Reuss, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420401
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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013
Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for … cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312875
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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for … cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957659
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Completed fertility effects of family policy measures: Evidence from a life-cycle model
Abiry, Raphael; Reuss, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957675