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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262131
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Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? First evidence from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2004
Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …
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Establishment age and wages: evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299231
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289876
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323787
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600980
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The Determinants of Reservation Wages in Germany Does a Motivation Gap Exist?
Christensen, Björn - 2001
-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high … in Germany compared to other countries. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260475
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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence
Christensen, Björn - 2002
This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …
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Die Validität erfragter Reservationslöhne: ein Test auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie
Christensen, Björn - 2003
Spiegeln in Befragungen ermittelte Reservationslöhne valide das wider, was nach der Suchtheorie zu erwarten wäre? Um diese Frage beantworten zu können, werden auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie unter zu Hilfenahme von empirisch ermittelten Beobachtungen über den Sucherfolg von...
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