Coworker networks in the labour market
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4250
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In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 175-213
ISSN: 1537-5307
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In: Labour Economics, Volume 72, p. 1-27
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium-to-low skill premium since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among workers aged 30 or below. Using a nested CES production function framework which allows for imperfect substitutability between young and old workers, we show that changes in relative labor supplies can explain these patterns very well. A cohort-level analysis reveals that distinct secular changes in the educational attainment of the native population are the primary source of the declining relative supply of medium-skilled workers in Germany. Low-skilled immigration, in contrast, only plays a secondary role in explaining the rising lower-end wage inequality in Germany over recent decades.
In: American economic review, Volume 110, Issue 4, p. 1055-1103
ISSN: 1944-7981
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage. We show that the flow of information provided by East German informants in the West over the period 1970–1989 led to a significant narrowing of sectoral TFP gaps between West and East Germany. These economic returns were primarily driven by relatively few high-quality pieces of information and particularly large in sectors closer to the West German technological frontier. Our findings suggest that the East-to-West German TFP ratio would have been 13.3 percent lower at the end of the Cold War had East Germany not engaged in industrial espionage in the West. (JEL L16, N44, O33, O38, O47, P24)
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6576
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In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Volume 33, Issue 3, p. 711-750
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10901
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 6257
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6525
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 9231
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