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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and immigrant workers in traditional immigration countries...

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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

I show that workers update expectations about job search and salary growth when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's announcement to build a large production plant in Racine County, Wisconsin. Exposure to positive news leads to an...

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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Labour market entry conditions, wages and job mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010

Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Wage differentials by field of study : the case of German university graduates

Görlitz, Katja; Grave, Barbara S. - 2012

Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields of study. Blinder-Oaxaca...

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The hidden increase in wage inequality : skill-biased and ability-biased technology change

Michaelsen, Maren - 2011

applications to measure innovation input and innovation output, respectively. Using different estimation methods for panel data … Personendaten des British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) und Industriedaten der OECD werden Lohnregressionen geschätzt, die den … sowohl Innovations-Input, als auch Innovations-Output zu messen. Verschiedene ökonometrische Panel-Schätzmethoden, wie Fixed …

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Wage inequality and wage mobility in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), this paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Europe. Decomposing inequality into within and between group inequality, we analyse to what extent wage inequality and mobility can be explained...

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Getting what (employers think) you’re worth : evidence on the gender gap in entry wages among university graduates

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2010

Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages is scarce. To fill this gap, we make use...

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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap

New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2010

the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the …In diesem Papier werden unter Verwendung von Daten der Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Änderungen in den …

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