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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...
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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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 performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341095
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128093
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013
, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality … wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792971
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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany ; conference paper
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013
over time, there are nevertheless concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the … and earnings for different groups of workers over time. Microeconometric models of job stability and wages are estimated … overall job stability but decreasing wages and rising wage dispersion over time, which is in line with wage moderation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339311
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Wages, prices, and international trade : trends across industries for an "export champion"
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1996
Germany for the period from 1970 until German reunification in 1990. Building on the emphasis of trade theory on relative … labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring … institutions were holding up relative wages of low-skilled labor which accounts for the disproportionate increase of unemployment …
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