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Kyropoulou, Maria; Ortega, Josué; Segal-Halevi, Erel - 2018

Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures … with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway, are … manipulate them. Our results support the practical use of the celebrated Selfridge-Conway procedure, and more generally, of envy …

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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 initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...

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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants’ return visits

Stichnoth, Holger - 2009

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

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Gender differences in German wage mobility

Aretz, Bodo - 2013

This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...

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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

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

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen : eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred; Kohn, Karsten - 2003

Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...

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Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company

Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

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How to limit discrimination? : analyzing the effects of innovative workplace practices on intra-firm gender wage gaps using linked employer-employee data

Wolf, Elke (contributor); Heinze, Anja (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that innovative human resource practices tend to limit the...

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Mobilität nach der beruflichen Ausbildung : eine empirische Studie für Westdeutschland

Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - 1999

Ob und wie lange Jugendliche nach Abschluß ihrer Lehre weiterhin im Ausbildungsbetrieb arbeiten, ist eine Fragestellung, deren Beantwortung für das Verständnis des Arbeitsmarktes in mehrfacher Hinsicht von Nutzen sein kann. Zum einen liefern Abgänge aus dem Ausbildungsbetrieb ohne...

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