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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers

Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010

sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data …

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Job levels and wages

Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2023

Job levels summarize the complexity, autonomy, and responsibility of task execution. Conceptually, job levels are related to the organization of production, are distinct from occupations, and can be constructed from data on task execution. We highlight their empirical role in matched...

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2016

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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The effect of unemployment on the smoking behavior of couples

Everding, Jakob; Marcus, Jan - 2019

Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-in-differences estimation, employing the post …

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The role of works councils for severance payments

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2017

Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...

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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? The role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state

Fackler, Daniel; Hank, Eva - 2016

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income … displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed effects estimations, we find high individual earnings losses after job …

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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany

Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …

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The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?

Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael - 2016

of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991 …

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Minimum wage in Germany: Countering the wage and employment gap between migrants and natives?

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and … evidence to evaluate the impact of the minimum wage introduction in 2015 on hourly wages, monthly salaries, working hours and … among migrants. The introduction of the minimum wage caused a temporary convergence in hourly wages between migrants and …

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