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Using methods of treatment evaluation to estimate the wage effect of IT usage

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002368184

A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448440

The returns to pencil use revisited

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007

The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447774

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443321

Einstiegslöhne bei unvollkommenen Arbeitsmärkten

Gernandt, Johanne (contributor); … - 2005

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564931

Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...

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