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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age

Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...

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Union density and varieties of coverage : the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects : are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After...

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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2006

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk (contributor); … - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Why pay seniority wages?

Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2009

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation...

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Apprenticeship training in Germany - investment or productivity driven?

Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

The German dual apprenticeship system came under pressure in recent years because enterprises were not willing to offer a sufficient number of apprenticeship positions. A frequently made argument is that the gap could be closed if more firms would be willing to incur net costs during the...

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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For the unemployment duration, we estimate censored...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010

Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …

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