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employment and working hours. The correlation with real hourly wages of teenagers is positive. These results are robust to the … spatially close states, only. This strongly suggests that interpreting nominal minimum wage changes as minimum wage shocks is …
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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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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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capital differentials do not contribute to redistribution of employment; rather it is one of the forces that maintain the …
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thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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of low-skill workers. Urban friction, rising with population size, reduces worker consumption relative to their wage …
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Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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the hiring behaviour of growing sectors in terms of labour pooling and employment growth. Given the importance of …, generally has negative effects on growin sectors' employment growth and even more so in regions with much decline. The overall … effects of decline in the region on the employment growth of growing sectors are only statistically significant (and positive …
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