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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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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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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

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Offshoring and labor income risk: An empirical investigation

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on the variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that...

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Offshoring and Labor Income Risk: An Empirical Investigation

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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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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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state: The case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap: A simulation-based study for Germany

Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian; … - 2015

In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay...

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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany: An overview

Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018

wages and satisfaction. We also discuss diffculties in the implementation of the minimum wage and the measurement of its … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …

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