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We examine job durations of German workers using linked employeremployee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...
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This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
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This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …
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Der Beitrag untersucht unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels für Westdeutschland über den Zeitraum 1984-2005, ob und in welcher Form die individuelle Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer von konjunkturellen Schwankungen beeinflusst wird. Als Analyseinstrument dient die...
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, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …
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Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …
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The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
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The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …
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Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
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