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

Garloff, Alfred; Fitzenberger, Bernd; 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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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - 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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Firm pay dynamics

Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian; Sauermann, Jan - 2021

We study the nature of firm pay dynamics. To this end, we propose a statistical model that extends the seminal framework by Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999a) to allow for idiosyncratically time-varying firm pay policies. We estimate the model using linked employeremployee data for Sweden from...

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Meritocracy across Countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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