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We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by …Wir analysieren, ob der Anstieg der weiblichen Erwerbsbeteiligung in Deutschland in den letzten Jahrzehnten durch den …
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This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy … persistently lower wages and higher unemployment rates in eastern compared with western Germany. …
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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 …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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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 …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population … labor market. Most recently, Germany’s potential labor force has grown as a consequence of many factors, including migration … the future, Germany will be more or less reliant on migration. This is the finding of various model calculations showing …
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We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by …
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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