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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the … ergeben sich jedoch unterschiedliche Muster in Abhängigkeit vom Geschlecht. So haben Männer in größeren Betrieben signifikant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652553
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - In: Annals of economics and statistics 121/122 (2016), pp. 385-413
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522822
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Guertzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301688
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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages under Different Bargaining Regimes : Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-Productivity Firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718004
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Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298712
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The evolution of wage mobility in the German low-wage-sector : is there evidence for increasing state dependence?
Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in Western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … probit models. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of earnings attrition, our estimation approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670714
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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?
Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675516
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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?
Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 … earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564931
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Low-wage jobs : stepping stone or poverty trap?
Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796259
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Low-Wage Jobs – Springboard to High-Paid Ones?
Knabe, Andreas - 2014
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the probability that unemployed persons obtain better-paid jobs in the future (springboard effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065770