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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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An empirical measure for labor market density
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303301
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632489
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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324590
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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins
Fuss, Catherine - 2008
This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative employer-employee dataset of individual annual earnings matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604900
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Aktivierende Sozialhilfe - Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung und Wachstum
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Holzner, Christian; Meister, Wolfgang; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 55 (2002) 09, pp. 3-52
Der Sozialstaat wurde geschaffen, die Fehlfunktionen des Arbeitsmarktes zu korrigieren und mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit herzustellen, als es der Markt vermag. Aber der Sozialstaat trägt seinerseits zu den sichtbaren Defekten des Arbeitsmarktes bei. Besonders problematisch ist die heutige...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691884
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How do firms adjust their wage bill in Belgium? A decomposition along the intensive and extensive margins
Fuss, Catherine - 2008
This paper decomposes wage bill changes at the firm level into components due to wage changes, and components due to net flows of employment. The analysis relies on an administrative employer-employee dataset of individual annual earnings matched with firms' annual accounts for Belgium over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506648
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Youth labour market performance in Spain and its determinants : a micro-level perspective
Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - 2013
This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour market dimensions. These include employment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767759
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371904
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Paying to avoid recession : using reenlistment to estimate the cost of unemployment
Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco - 2016
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding between reenlisting and exiting the military. We find that servicemembers would sacrifice 1.5-2% in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450439