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Training, mobility, and wages : specific versus general human capital

Garloff, Alfred (contributor); Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2005

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2009

development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …

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Gender differences in German wage mobility

Aretz, Bodo - 2013

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 for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … entire observation period. The mobility decline was sharper in East Germany so that the level of wage mobility has fallen …

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

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Workers, firms, or institutions : what determines job duration for male employees in Germany?

Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor); … - 2008

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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Occupational and locational substitution : measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility

Aldashev, Alisher - 2009

regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824047

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs : the impact of venture capitalists on executive turnover

Heger, Diana (contributor); Tykvová, Tereza (contributor) - 2007

We present evidence on venture capitalists' (VCs) impact on turnover of executives for a sample of nearly 47,000 German high-tech start-ups between 1995 and 2004. We confirm that the presence of VCs increases the probability of a change in the initial executive team. Additionally, we take a...

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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 …

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