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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2005
Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681891
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Rising wage dispersion, after all! : The German wage structure at the turn of the century
Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006
throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328086
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Continuing vocational training in Germany : a comparative study using 3 German data set
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006
Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314706
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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany
Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338004
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435431
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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404769
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901534
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Does IT outsourcing increase firm success? : an empirical assessment using firm-level data
Ohnemus, Jörg (contributor) - 2007
Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003619696
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Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model : the value of disaggregation
Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2006
We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394091