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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in … Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition … methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to investigate whether the increase in wage inequality can be explained …

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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity

Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...

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Long-lasting labour market consequences of German unification

Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; Phan thi Hong Van; … - 2015 - (Final version: Sept. 14, 2015)

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...

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The glass ceiling revisited : empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder

Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...

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