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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are...
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Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009
dem wir das regressions- discontinuity Design der Wehrpflicht in Deutschland während der 1950er untersuchen. Unverzerrte …
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
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An empirical investigation of labor income processes
Guvenen, Fatih - 2007
In this paper we reassess the evidence on labor income risk. There are two leading views on the nature of the income process in the current literature. The .first view, which we call the .Restricted Income Profiles.(RIP) process, holds that individuals are subject to large and very persistent...
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Einkommenserträge von Bildungsabschlüssen im Lebensverlauf: Aktuelle Berechnungen für Deutschland
Piopiunik, Marc; Kugler, Franziska; Wößmann, Ludger - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 07, pp. 19-30
sechsstelligen Zuwächsen beim Lebenseinkommen. Über das gesamte Arbeitsleben betrachtet liegt das Einkommen von Personen mit einer … Lehrausbildung um 143 000 Euro über dem Lebenseinkommen von Personen ohne beruflichen Ausbildungsabschluss. Bei Personen mit Meister …-/Technikerabschluss wiederum fällt das Lebenseinkommen 129 000 Euro höher aus als bei Personen, deren höchster Abschluss eine Lehre ist; bei …
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276096
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276121
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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2010
This paper investigates how social comparison information about referent others (i.e. learning what similar others do and how they are treated) affects reciprocal relationships. Using a three-person gift-exchange game we study how employees' reciprocity towards an employer is affected by...
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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...
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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data
Walewski, Mateusz - 2009
There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...
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