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Alternative approaches to discrete working time choice in an AGE framework

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Boeters, Stefan (contributor); … - 2005

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652553

Estimating the wage premium of collective wage contracts : evidence from longitudinal linked employer-employee data

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012

Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the …

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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …

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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence : evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014

Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...

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Not employed 37 hours or employed 41? : A CGE analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus (contributor); Koschel, Henrike (contributor); … - 2005

in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …

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Oil and unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas (contributor); … - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …

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Rent-sharing and collective bargaining coverage - evidence from linked employer-employee data

Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2005

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm-profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

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Rent-sharing and collective bargaining coverage : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version

Using a linked employer-employee data set, this paper analyses the relationship between firm profitability and wages. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the sensitivity of wages to firm-specific rents varies with collective bargaining coverage. To address this issue, we...

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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll …

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