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The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
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We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general … management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog … productionfunction. Time and management induced technical change are then defined interms of these general indices. For comparison, we …
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selbst erstellt haben. Infolge der Lohnunterschiede zwischen Industrie und Dienstleistungssektor ändert sich damit aus … Deutschland und im Vergleich mit Frankreich und den Niederlanden analysiert. Im Ergebnis zeigt die Erweiterung der … - gesamtwirtschaftlich betrachtet - geringere Belastung der Industriegüter mit Lohnkosten in Deutschland, Frankreich und den Niederlanden an …
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Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
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This report examines structural change in employment and the development of servicesector jobs in Germany and Britain … between 1993 and 2002. During this period the British labour market was buoyant, while the employment situation in Germany can …-wage service jobs, especially in a country such as Germany which has traditionally enjoyed a high-skill, high-wage equilibrium. The …
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Geschäftsabläufe zu integrieren. Die Anwendungsmuster unterscheiden sich von Branche zu Branche. Im Dienstleistungssektor hat die … europäischen Ländern - Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien und dem Vereinigten Königreich, hier als EU-4 bezeichnet - untersucht und …
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In public discussion in Germany it is often argued that jobs are mainly created in small and medium-sized firms (i …
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