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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - 2012

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...

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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey

Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - 2008

reasons preventing wage cuts suggests that specific fear of excess worker turnover could explain distinct wage setting …The paper provides evidence concerning incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services and manufacturing …, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …

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Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - 2015

This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...

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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey

Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097817

Arnold, Daniel; De Pinto, Marco - 2015

This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...

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