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-education group is expected to have a depressing effect on the real wage rate of that group. To test this prediction empirically, this … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows …
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in … Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition … methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to investigate whether the increase in wage inequality can be explained …
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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the newest employment forecast data to 2020 to present the development patterns of the labour demand in Poland and in the … Lodzkie region. The analysis of data seems to confirm, that shifts in the sectoral and occupational structure of employment …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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