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dispersion across employers exists in the sense that different employers offer different wages to the same worker, the theory …
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Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that … statistically significant effect on current wages leads one to conclude that computer wage differentials can be attributed to worker …
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This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who … imputed using a probit estimated on the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). Average wages of those classified as displaced … recalls, and to the probit specification used, and are confirmed in the smaller GSOEP file. -- displaced workers ; wages …
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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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Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …
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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. Sicherman (1991) was able to confirm this theory in an empirical study. However, the controls for the opposing phenomenon of undereducation...
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There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...
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maturities and moneyness dimension is neglected. In this paper we propose to estimate the implied volatility surface at each … point in time nonparametrically and to analyze the implied volatility surface slice by slice with a common principal … study a p variate random vector of k groups, say the "volatility smile" at p different grid points of moneyness for k …
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The analysis of diffusion processes in financial models is crucially dependent on the form of the drift and diffusion coefficient functions. A methodology is proposed for estimating and testing coefficient functions for ergodic diffusions that are not directly observable. It is based on...
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