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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?

McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.

-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …

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Does future PC use determine our wages today? : evidence from German panel data

Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2002

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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Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility

Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - 2001

The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are … undereducated workers enjoy higher rates of relative wage growth. Our results cast serious doubt on the career mobility model, at … and upward career mobility, the plausibility of our results is supported by the finding that overeducated workers have …

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On the wages of temporary help service workers in Germany

Kvasnicka, Michael; Werwatz, Axel - 2002

This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition, we present evidence showing that average male real...

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Self-rated and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from german panel data

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2002

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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Wann kehren junge Mütter auf den Arbeitsmarkt zurück? : Eine Verweildaueranalyse für Deutschland

Weber, Andrea Maria (contributor) - 2004

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Die Anatomie des Berufswechsels : eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme auf Basis der BIBB/IAB-Daten 1998/1999

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2004

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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms

Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2003

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Using methods of treatment evaluation to estimate the wage effect of IT usage

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...

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