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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440778
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Relative earnings and the demand for unskilled labor in West German manufacturing
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440891
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East-West German wage convergence - how far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440938
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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441000
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 1998
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441629
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Labour market transitions and the persistence of unemployment : West Germany 1983-1992
Steiner, Viktor - 1994
Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619969
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Testing for state dependence effects in a dynamic model of male unemployment behaviour
Flaig, Gebhard; Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993
A dynamic random effects probit model is estimated on the first six waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to test for state dependence effects in male unemployment behaviour. Estimation of the model is based on the marginal likelihood approach. In the model an individual's unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622569
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Assimilation, labour market experience, and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany
Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993
Germany which allows us to control for unobserved population heterogeneity and potential selectivity bias arising from an …-worker system we use information on an immigrant's expected duration of stay in Germany to distinguish between temporary and … of stay. We find that years of schooling in Germany have a strong positive effect on earnings, that earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622739
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Re-migration behaviour and expected duration of stay of guest-workers in Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Velling, Johannes - 1992
We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622817