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Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal

Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009

relationship for Germany and Portugal. Both countries, though member states of the European Union, are fairly different from each … opposite result for Germany which apparently benefits from higher diversity. Hence, we suggest that both concentration and …

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Good Occupation - Bad Occupation? The Quality of Apprenticeship Training

Göggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...

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Workers, Firms, or Institutions : What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2009

We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer-employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2009

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … wage inequality in Germany …

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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Biewen, Martin - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

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What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany

Arntz, Melanie - 2008

of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial …. Regional differentials in non-pecuniary assets slightly contribute to spatial sorting processes in Germany. Such differences in … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2008

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2014

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...

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Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2013

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three...

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