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Gesetzliche Mindestlöhne:Ein Weg aus der Krise am Arbeitsmarkt?
Weinkopf, Claudia - Institut Arbeit und Technik <Gelsenkirchen> - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860280
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The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity : Evidence from Madeira Island
Budria, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro T. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after the completion of the training program) depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859736
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Beschäftigungswirkungen verringerter Sozialleistungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt – Was bewirkt Hartz IV?
Irmen, Andreas; Lipponer, Christoph - Université du Luxembourg / Faculté de Droit, …; … - 2010
Von dem vierten Gesetz für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt (Hartz IV), das mit dem 1. Januar 2005 in Kraft … Arbeitsmarkt vollkommenen, so führt dies zu einer Senkung des gleichgewichtigen Reallohns und damit zu mehr Beschäftigung. In einem … unvoll-kommenen Arbeitsmarkt mit einem bindenden Mindestlohn kann diese Wirkung ebenfalls erzielt werden, wenn der Anstieg …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248991
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages withinEmployer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
Anger, Silke - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employeematches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures arecompared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime andbonus pay; the effective wage, which takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360545
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions onInitial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation,and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals firstentering the Austrian labor … market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect ofunfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360566
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861172
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861527
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An Intra-Firm Perspective on Wage Profiles and Employmentof Older Workers with Special Reference to Human Capitaland Deferred Compensation
Pfeifer, Christian - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009
Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do nothire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants areexplored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective,such adjustments might lead to adverse incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867317
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban WagePremium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroadsof labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) andabout the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of eachof these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868447
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URBAN INSIDERS VERSUS RURAL OUTSIDERS:COMPLEMENTARITY OR COMPETITION IN CHINA’S URBANLABOUR MARKET?
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour marketcompetition from rural-urban migrants. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urbanmigration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labourdemand outstripped that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870198