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Let's go West!: Do East Germans commute for wages, jobs or skills?
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Staat, Matthias; Vögele, Stefan - 1993
Using data from the longitudinal Labor Market Monitor for the New German States we provide a portrait of East-West commuters in the first year after unification and evaluate various hypotheses to explain the phenomenon. Commuters may be driven by the search for higher wages in the west or by...
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A comparative analysis of East and West German labor markets before and after unification
Krueger, Alan B.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1992
This paper uses micro data to analyze the wage structures in East Germany and West Germany before and after unification …. In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or in the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299563
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Assimilation and the earnings of guestworkers in Germany
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1992
Unlike prototype immigration countries, Germany has attracted a large number of southern Europeans as temporary … guestworkers in the 60s and 70s. Nevertheless, many of them have stayed on and intend to remain in Germany. I investigate whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299569
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Ausländische Werkvertragsarbeitnehmer am Bau: Bauboom oder Verdrängungswettbewerb?
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Velling, Johannes - 1993
While the entry of new immigrants into the German labour market is usually controlled by the local labour authorities, no such controls exist for contract workers (Werkvertragsarbeitnehmer), who are subject to national quotas which are fixed in the medium term. Therefore the ease of contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299621
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Peer effects in European primary schools: evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270614
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Continuous Training in Germany
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276190
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Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany: evidence and interpretation
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2005
the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277103
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261593