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Employment effects of minimum wage changes across regions, age groups, and sectors
Majchrowska, Aleksandra; Strawinski, Pawel - In: Journal of banking and financial economics 20 (2023), pp. 111-132
Structure of Earnings Survey and aggregated data from the Local Data Bank in Poland. The research period covers 2006-2020. Our …
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Count your hours : returns to education in Poland
Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009
We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen: Eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Garloff, Alfred; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2003
Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297341
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297507
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
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 Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262112
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372979
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job-to-job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727242