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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485288
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344606
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340997
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339311
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339877
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341074
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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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Permanent changes in the wage structure and the East German fertility crisis : conference paper
Arntz, Melanie; Gathmann, Christina - 2014 - This version: February 14, 2014
After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0.7 children per woman (1994). While this fact is well-documented, little is still known about the crisis underlying causes. We propose a new explanation: permanent shifts in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486685
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482474
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484463