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Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. The local skill structure is frequently regarded as a major cause for regional growth disparities....
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in regional employment within a rich vocational education setting in West Germany during 1979 and 2012. Results confirm … occupations has been the greatest, in Germany there is a greater trend towards occupational upgrading and larger growth in …
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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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gekennzeichnet. Dabei ist das lokale Humankapital ein wahrscheinlicher Einflussfaktor für das qualifikationsspezifische Lohnniveau …
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segregation in Germany. Our findings point to marked disparities among German regions. Moreover, we analyse the determinants of …
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highly qualified workers in Germany we find that an increase in the regional share of highly qualified workers by one …
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This article reconsiders the empirical evidence on regional human capital externalities using longitudal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). It complements the empirical literature on the role of human capital for explaining regional wage differences. Based on the framework...
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We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock of human capital available to firms and survey information on firm characteristics to...
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region where the degree was earned, and the place of work. Eastern Germany serves as an interesting showcase in light of the …This paper investigates the extent to which the returns to gaining a PhD degree depend upon the region of birth, the … ongoing debate surrounding the underrepresentation of eastern Germans in top positions in Germany. We examine the career paths …
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