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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357980
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360911
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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366230
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Teenage pregnancies and birth in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports counter-cyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373670
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442687
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Human Capital Creates Insider Power
Zwick, Thomas; Muysken, Joan - 2008
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089748
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297626
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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297700
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090451