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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341074
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages : conference paper
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485288
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The effect of housework on wages in Germany : no impact at all
Hirsch, Boris; Konietzko, Thorsten - 2011
This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals’ wages for Germany … international literature, we find no negative effect of housework on wages. This holds for men and women, for married and single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009373376
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717786
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222161
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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225884
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023 - This version: 13.11.2023
representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document that 70% of employers pay wages below the marginal revenue … product of labour and 30% pay wages above. We further find that the prevalence of wage mark-downs is significantly smaller … when organised labour is present and that the ratio of wages to the marginal revenue product of labour is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014425610
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How Selective are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Hirsch, Boris - 2014
Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047855
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383706
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Organised labour, labour market imperfections, and employer wage premia
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen; … - 2020
exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers' monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389881