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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090451
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Allocative efficiency, plant dynamics and regional productivity : evidence from Germany
Bruhn, Simon; Grebel, Thomas - 2023
-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503649
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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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The role of the human capital and managerial skills in explaining the productivity gaps between East and West
Steffen, Wolfgang (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and … related research with respect to a comparison of formal qualification between East and West. Furthermore, the analysis was … the role of capital deepening in productivity catch-up, as well as the case that the gaps in labour productivity are most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003576739
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The role of human capital and managerial skills in explaining productivity gaps between East and West
Steffen, Wolfgang; Stephan, Johannes - In: Eastern European economics 46 (2008) 6, pp. 5-24
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Explaining the East German productivity gap: the role of human capital
Ragnitz, Joachim - 2007
The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260566
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E.; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2021
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317022
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Technological progress, occupational structure, and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2024
We analyze if technological progress and the change in the occupational structure have improved women's position in the labour market. We show that women increasingly work in non-routine manual and in interactive occupations. However, the observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547925
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Matching skills of individuals and firms along the career path : conference paper
Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2013 - Draft version
This paper presents an analytical setup that makes predictions for the relationships between firm and occupation specific human capital and job switches. The predictions are then tested using the task based approach. The results, based on data for Germany, show that the degree to which firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343786