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Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...
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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … find that overeducated workers have markedly lower relative wage growth rates than correctly allocated workers, while … undereducated workers enjoy higher rates of relative wage growth. Our results cast serious doubt on the career mobility model, at …
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Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition … average long-term earnings effects of THS work. If anything, THS work seems to have aided workers in putting to a halt …
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fixed effects model decreases wage differentials between permanent and temporary workers. A two-step instrumental variables … male temporary employees experience significantly higher 2 and 10 year wage growth than workers on permanent contracts …. Using multinomial logistic regression models we find that many temporary workers move into permanent jobs, often with the …
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Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as...
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We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
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Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the … geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are "rooted" in place and also whether those who …
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This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...
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Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006...
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To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...
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