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wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … to other high‐tech start‐ups. However, neither a comprehensive theoretical assessment nor the empirical literature on …. Using a unique linked employer‐employee data set of German high‐tech start‐ups, we estimate Mincer‐type wage regressions …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages …, describe the development of various wage measures, labor productivity and unit labor costs in East Germany in relation to West … Germany, and relate these developments to the system of collective wage bargaining. At the microeconomic level, we describe …
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This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non … part, by technological change. We also show that these task changes are related to the recent polarization of employment …
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distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment subsample to describe the empirics of labor market transitions and the wage … structure in Germany. Motivated by search theory, we use the data to explore descriptively labor market transitions and features … relationship exists between wages and labor market transitions as predicted by search theory. However, the noticeable share of wage …
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It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …
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occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …
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