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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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distribution. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …
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individual wages. For this purpose hypotheses are formulated as to what drives this impact: sex-specific preferences, lower … qualifications among women or discrimination against women. To investigate this issue empirically, I use matched employer …-employee data from Germany. My results indicate that an increasing proportion of women in an establishment reduces wages for males …
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rather attempt to identify the macroeconomic trends of wages apart from life cycle and cohort effects implementing a model …
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Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
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We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill?biased...
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be extended to allow migrants to move to regions that best reward their skills in terms of both wages and employment. The … framework that has been developed by Borjas et al. (1992) on the selectivity of internal migrants with respect to skills has to … extended framework predicts skilled workers to be disproportionately attracted to regions with higher mean wages and employment …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West …
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