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What characterizes a fast growing firm?
Almus, Matthias - 2000
and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … when separating Eastern and Western Germany as well as using different definitions of fast growing firms. Moreover, the …
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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany : Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated …
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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456517
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Paving the way to development : costly migration and labor market integration
Morten, Melanie; Oliveira, Jaqueline - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473669
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713639
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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 45 (2010) 4, pp. 998-1045
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003667024
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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment
Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …
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