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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...

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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience

Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …

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Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen

Beissinger, Thomas; Knoppik, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation Reallohnanpassungen und führt so möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die wachsende Evidenz zu nach unten starren Nominallöhnen. Es werden nicht nur die...

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