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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of STEM subjects on overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals...
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Unemployment and social exclusion
Pohlan, Laura - 2018
on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446629
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Noncognitive skills, Internet use and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Gernandt, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …
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Skill biased technological change and endogenous benefits : the dynamics of unemployment and wage inequality
Weiss, Matthias (contributor); Garloff, Alfred (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …
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Determinanten der Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer - neue Erkenntnisse aus der IEB?
Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
verfügbare Einschätzung des Agenturmitarbeiters zur aktuellen Qualifikation des Arbeitslosen hat einen größeren Einfluss als die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003394113
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Lower wages for less hours? : a simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany
Wolf, Elke - 2000
In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...
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