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Wage effects of labor market entry via temporary work agency employment - evidence for German apprenticeship graduates
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Buch, Tanja - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...
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Youth Employment Instability, True State Dependence and Adult Wage Inequality
Umkehrer, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...
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Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
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A new semiparamtetric approach to analysing Conditional Income Distributions
Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income … distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using …
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The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records
Giesecke, Matthias; Bönke, Timm; Lüthen, Holger - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
We examine patterns of earnings volatility for male employees who are subject to statutory social security contributions in West Germany over the period 1986 - 2005. For this purpose, we analyse individual records covering highly reliable earnings biographies provided by the German Social...
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Retirement Incomes, Labour Supply and Co-residency Decisions of Older Immigrants in Canada: 1991-2006
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
income from private pensions compared with the Canadian born. Immigrants from non-traditional source countries have low … levels of CPP/QPP income relative to immigrants from traditional source countries or the Canadian born. In terms of OAS …/GIS income, immigrant men who arrived at age 60 or older have in the order of 50% lower incidence of receiving pension income …
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Labour Market Matters - June 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
of low income on consumption. …
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Impacts of Cyclical Downturns on the Third Pillar of the RIS and Policy Responses
Davies, James B.; Yu, Xiaoyu - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
recovery the recession would have reduced expected retirement income of future retirees by averages of 3.4% and 11.0% for DB … CPP/QPP is compared with wide adoption of Pooled RPPs (PRPPs). Expected retirement income is higher with PRPPs but so is …
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The Award of a Training Voucher and Labor Market Outcomes
Paul, Marie; Dörr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper estimates the labor market effects of being awarded with a training voucher using an instrumental variable approach. In Germany all public sponsored further training programs are allocated through vouchers and the system, we study here, thus represents a major case of the use of...
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The effect of involuntary unemployment on the mental health of spouses
Marcus, Jan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
This paper is the first to estimate the effect of one partner's entry into unemployment on the mental health of both spouses in Germany. In order to give the estimates a causal interpretation, this study focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (plant closure) and applies a...
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