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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

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Sharing the burden : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income...

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Low-wage jobs : stepping stone or poverty trap?

Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010

We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...

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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...

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The fall and rebound of average establishment size in West Germany

Kovalenko, Tim; Sauerbier, Timo; Schröpf, Benedikt - 2024

In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late 2000s, while the employer size wage premium followed the opposite trajectory. In this paper, we show that these two developments are interrelated. More precisely, our results...

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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...

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Evolution of the East German wage structure

Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020

. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining … minor role as does the decline of union coverage for the rise in wage inequality. The adoption of minimum wages in selected …

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Demographic change and regional labour markets

Böhm, Michael; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020

Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to estimate quasi- causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes,...

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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs : evidence from a natural experiment

Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces...

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

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