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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

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 … duration and wages, like low skilled, formerly unemployed and temporary agency workers. Again, we find evidence of a rise in …

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Wage effects of labor market entry via temporary work agency employment : evidence for German apprenticeship graduates : conference paper

Buch, Tanja; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2013

In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...

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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

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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 …

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The wage effects of fixed-term contract employment revisited : an investigation based on social security records ; conference paper

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Paul, Marie; … - 2014 - Preliminary!, This version: 01.02.2014

Using data from social security records on Spanish males, we investigate the wage effects of working under a fixed-term contract. In a first step, we provide fixed-effects estimates of the wage effect of working under a fixed-term contract for low-skilled, medium-skilled, and high-skilled men...

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred in the US not just recently, but also in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that in each case polarization resulted from increased automation, and...

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The cyclical behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2014

This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using … workers' entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under monopsonistic wage setting, suggesting that monopsony …

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A weighty issue revisited : the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany ; conference paper

Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - 2013

We estimate the effect of changes in the body mass index on wages and satisfaction in a panel of German employees …. Dynamic models indicate that satisfaction with life in general and with health are responsive to weight changes, but wages and …

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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 returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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