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International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay : The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2007

Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...

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EU Enlargement Under Continued Mobility Restrictions : Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …

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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...

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Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man : Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Hartung, Benjamin - 2016

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise...

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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, Maria Ángeles - 2016

has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …

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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hansen, Hans - 2016

In this paper, we calculate the disposable incomes in 2012 of three selected family types receiving social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social assistance, calculated on the basis of the disposable incomes...

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How Deep is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership

Krebs, Oliver - 2015

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus - 2016

workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a …

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