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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well … Germany the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher inequality. …
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297934
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007
-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent … the group of workers with low tenure experienced higher increases in wage inequality compared to the group of workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016
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Dual labour markets: A survey
Wapler, Rüdiger - 1999
Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market, this paper presents a survey of how these theories can be integrated into a dual labour market setting. This approach dichotomises the labour market into two sectors, a primary...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 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/10011601006
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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 29-41
This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko, Rev. Econ. Stud. 54, 437...
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Does Quality Matter in Labour Input? The Changing Pattern of Labour Composition in New Zealand
Szeto, Kam Leong; McLoughlin, Simon - 2008
The composition of the New Zealand workforce has changed considerably over the past two decades. Qualification levels have risen, labour force participation has trended upwards for women, immigrants have increasingly been sourced from Asia, and the large baby-boom cohort has contributed to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115606
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The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Büchel, Felix - 2000
participate in on-the-job training, and to have longer periods of tenure with the same firm than their correctly allocated … the established fact that overeducated workers receive wage premiums for their surplus schooling. The overall results make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262423
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Wage flexibility in ongoing employment relations: an experiment with a stochastic labor market
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Bleich, Sabrina; Güth, Werner - 2007
to temporary employment? And, if not, will employers adjust wages to changing market wages and will workers in ongoing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263823
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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …. The dual nature of the informal sector emerges from our results. In the high-tier segment, self-employed workers receive a … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
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