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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297774
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262540
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
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Relative Earnings and the Demand for Unskilled Labor in West German Manufacturing
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill?biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297558
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297667
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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job °ows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300686
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts: A microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300709
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324232
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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600919