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On Wage Formation, Wage Flexibility and Wage Coordination : A Focus on the Wage Impact of Productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States

Peeters, Marga - 2012

This paper discusses the endeavours of policy makers to come to some degree of wage coordination among EU countries, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national levels. In this context, we analyse the wage and productivity developments in Germany, the European...

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Macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion : a CGE simulation for Germany and the UK

Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - 2008

Der Beitrag untersucht die makroökonomischen Auswirkungen der Umlenkung der Migrationsströme im Laufe der EU-Osterweiterung von Deutschland weg in Richtung Großbritannien. Mit den neuen osteuropäischen Mitgliedsländern wurden Übergangsfristen bis zur kompletten Freizügigkeit vereinbart....

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …

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Does the sector experience affect the pay gap for temporary agency workers?

Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2011

length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set, we estimate the effects of the intensity of agency employment on the … to accept a sizeable wage disadvantage at first, indicating that temporary agency employment might stigmatise workers …. However, agency employment does not seem to leave a long-lasting scar. -- temporary agency employment ; treatment intensity …

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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - 2013

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2011

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

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Wage mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33

effects in the U.S. Employment trends in both countries are consistent with polarization since the 1990s. The evidence is …

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