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This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...
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This paper makes use of data from the German socio-economic panel to gain new insights into the determinants of unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze...
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This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982109
Using aggregate data, the paper analyzes the importance of inventory investment for German business cycles since 1960. In contrast to U.S. experience, the traditional productionsmoothing/ buffer-stock model is not rejected by empirical evidence. Preliminary national accounts data of inventory...
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This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
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Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May 2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme on the employability of the participating individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering...
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subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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returns to investment in skills is an elaboration of the model of skill formation from Cunha, Heckman et al. (2006) over the … life cycle. Our simulation based evidence illustrates the cumulative and synergetic nature of skill formation, the skill …
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service production. This dissertation investigates the meaning of these changes for the occupational and skill structure of … that drive this risk. The altering skill structure is partly reflected in occupational switching. Therefore, in one chapter …
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