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Decomposing the large firm wage premium in Germany
Lochner, Benjamin; Seth, Stefan; Wolter, Stefanie - 2020
We use an extensive,matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...
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Decomposing the large firm wage premium in Germany
Lochner, Benjamin; Seth, Stefan; Wolter, Stefanie - 2020
We use an extensive, matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employersize wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171569
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169915
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Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Real Hourly Wages in the U.S.
Fernández-Val, Iván; Peracchi, Franco; Vella, Francis; … - 2019
We analyze the sources of changes in the distribution of hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the … annual hours of work and estimating a nonseparable model of wages which uses a control function to account for selection … distribution. We decompose changes in the distribution of wages into composition, structural and selection effects. Composition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122973
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Decomposing real wage changes in the United States
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2018
composition, structural and selection effects. Composition effects have increased wages at all quantiles but the patterns of wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959185
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Clustering life trajectories : a new divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm for discrete-valued discrete time series
Dlugosz, Stephan - 2011
A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16–65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901833
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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
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The impact of age complementarities and learning externalities on labor productivity: evidence from German micro data
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752525
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The impact of age complementarities and learning externalities on labor productivity : evidence from German micro data
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736715
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Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany : a spatial analysis
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414243