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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...

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Innovation and location in German knowledge intensive business service firms

Brunow, Stephan; Hammer-Langrock, Andrea; McCann, Philip - 2017

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …

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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...

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Does personality matter? : the impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps

Brenzel, Hanna; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2016

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...

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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants

Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...

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Regional discontinuities and the effectiveness of further training subsidies for low-skilled employees

Dauth, Christine - 2017

I analyze the effects of further training subsidies for low-skilled employees on individual labor market outcomes in Germany for the period from 2007 to 2012. Using detailed administrative data, I exploit cross-regional variation in the conditional policy styles of local employment agencies and...

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Apprentice poaching in regional labor markets

Stockinger, Bastian; Zwick, Thomas - 2017 - Updated version May 2, 2017

A number of studies have found that firms provide less training if they are located in regions with strong labor market competition. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence of a higher risk of poaching in these regions. Yet, there is no direct evidence that regional competition is...

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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries

Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016

This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...

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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Zapf, Ines - 2015

In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

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