Patrick Puhani

Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure - Evidence from Firm Personnel Records (2008)

Blaise Melly, Patrick Puhani

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years...

What Happened to Wage and Non-Employment Structures During the 'Dutch Employment Miracle'? (2004)

Patrick Puhani

Not available in German The Netherlands have experienced an employment miracle since the 1980s. This note investigates what happened to the wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between...

Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets - A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany (2004)

Patrick Puhani

Manuscript#### not available in German Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in...

Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification (2004)

Markus Froelich, Patrick Puhani

Based on a nonparametrically estimated model of labor market classifications, this paper makes suggestions for immigration policy using data from western Germany in the 1990s. It is demonstrated that...

A Note on Changes in the Earnings and Unemployment Structures in Spain: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (2004)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German This note tests whether the extraordinary rise in Spanish unemployment in the 1980s can be traced back to rigidities in the earnings structure in the face of relative net...

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment – Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants (2003)

Patrick Puhani

Jahreskongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, Bern, 20.03.2003####

Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential, Evidence from the UK and Germany (2003)

Stephen Machin, Patrick Puhani

not available in German We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force...

Subject of Degree and Differences in Wages Between Men and Women - A Comparison of Britain, France, and Germany (2003)

Patrick Puhani

3. Nutzerkonferenz ”Forschung mit dem Mikrozensus: Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum Arbeitsmarkt, Statistisches Bundesamt und Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim,...

Rent Extraction from Temporary Workers? Evidence from Switzerland Based on a Regression Discontinuity Design (2003)

Patrick Puhani

14th EC2 conference, Endogeneity, Instruments and Identification in Econometrics, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 13.12.2003####

Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment (2003)

Patrick Puhani

Little is known on the existence of negative relative demand shocks against low-skilled workers on a ‘US-style’ deregulated labour market with a ‘German-style’ vocational (apprenticeship)...

Korreferat zu D. Beninger, F. Laisney und M. Beblo: Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence from Germany (2003)

Patrick Puhani

DFG – Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Konferenz ”The Economics of Gender Issues: Widening the Debate”, Universität Mannheim und ZEW, Mannheim, 29.3.2003####

Active Labour Market Policy and Employment Flows, Evidence from Polish Regional Data (2003)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German I analyse Polish active labour market policy programmes (ALMP) from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from...

The Rigidity of the Wage Structure, Comparing the U.S., Britain, Switzerland, and Western Germany (2002)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation im Labor Economics Seminar, Boston College, Boston, MA, 22.4.2002####

Rent Extraction from Temporary Workers? Evidence from Switzerland (2002)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Labor Lunch Seminar, Cambridge, MA, 26.2.2002####

Relative Wage and Unemployment Changes in Poland, Microeconometric Evidence (2002)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation an den ASSA meetings, Atlanta, GA, 2002, 6.1.2002#### Link zum zugehörigen Paper

Relative Wage and Unemployment Changes in Poland: Microeconometric Evidence (2002)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German We estimate changes in the Polish wage and unemployment structures between the years 1994 and 1998 in order to identify labour market characteristics associated with...

Changes in Wage and Unemployment Structures: An International Comparison (2002)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation im Clark University Economics Seminar, Worcester, MA, 18.3.2002####

Changes in Wage and Unemployment Structures: An International Comparison (2002)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation im Clark University Economics Seminar, Worcester, MA, 18.3.2002####

Advantage through Trainnig? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Training and Job Subsidy Programmes (2002)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective...

Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s (2001)

Patrick Puhani

Harvard Labor Economics Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 7.11.2001#### Link zum zugehörigem Paper

Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s (2001)

Patrick Puhani

Diskussionspapier 2001-10, Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen, IZA Discussion Paper No. 334, Bonn, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-36, Mannheim#### not available in German This paper...

Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s (2001)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am CEPR - IZA European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, Buch a. Ammersee, 28.4.2001#### Link zum zugehörigem Paper

Labour Mobility – An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland? Empirical Evidence for Western Germany, France, and Italy (2001)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this...

Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany (2001)

Patrick Puhani

MIT Labor Lunch, 2.10.2001, Cambridge, MA; Rutgers University Labor Economics and Econometrics Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, 12.10.2001####

The Heckman Correction for Sample Selection and Its Critique – A Short Survey (2000)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German This paper gives a short overview of Monte Carlo studies on the usefulness of Heckman’s (1976, 1979) two–step estimator for estimating a selection model. It shows that...

Poland on the Dole – The Effect of Reducing the Unemployment Benefit Entitlement Period during Transition (2000)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German We analyse the unemployment benefit regime change that occurred in Poland in December 1991 using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey. Before December 1991, the...

Korreferat zu R. E. Wright: The Rate of Return to Private Schooling? (2000)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am CEPR - IZA European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, Buch a. Ammersee, 26.9.2000####

Do Public Works Programmes Work? Some Unpleasant Results from the East German Experience (2000)

Florian Kraus, Patrick Puhani, Viktor Steiner

not available in German Frühere Version: Kraus, F., P. Puhani, V. Steiner (1998), Do Public Works Programmes Work? Some Unpleasant Results from the East German Experience, ZEW Discussion Paper...

Korreferat zu G. Kertesi and J. Köllö: Unemployment, Wage Push and the Cost Competitiveness of Regions - Evidence from Hungary under Transition (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am Phare ACE Workshop "Changing Relatives Wages in Central and Eastern Europe", Budapest, 24.4.1999####

Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies, Empirical Evidence for Poland during Transition (1999)

Patrick Puhani

not available in German Most governments in today's market economies spend significant sums of money on labour market programmes. The declared aims of these programmes are to increase the...

Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programmes: The East German Experience (1999)

Florian Kraus, Patrick Puhani, Viktor Steiner

not available in German We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after...

Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Eastern Germany (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am Annual Meeting of Econometric Society and American Social Science Associations, New York, 4.1.1999####

All Quiet on the Wage Front? Gender, Public-Private Sector Issues and Rigidities in the Polish Wage Structure (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am Phare ACE Workshop "Changing Relative Wages in Central and Eastern Europe", Budapest, 24.4.1999####

Advantage through Training? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation an der Atlantic Economic Conference, Vienna, 22.3.1999#### Link zum zugehörigen Paper

Advantage through Training? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation im Brown Bag Seminar, Universität Mannheim, 13.1.1999#### Link zum zugehörigen Paper

Advantage through Training? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland (1999)

Patrick Puhani

Präsentation am 4th Annual International Conference on Transition Economics, The Centre for Economic Policy Research and the William Davidson Institute, Beijing, 23.7.1999#### Link zum zugehörigen...

Labour Supply of Married Women in Poland A Microeconometric Study Based on the Polish Labour Force Survey (1995)

Patrick Puhani

ZEW Discussion Paper No.95–12, Mannheim#### not available in German The labour supply of married women in Poland is studied using the Polish Labour Force Survey on three econometric models, viz....

Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Patrick Puhani, Andrea Maria Weber

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school...

Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Patrick Puhani

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative...

Does the early bird catch the worm?

Patrick Puhani, Andrea Weber

I21, I28, J24, Education, Immigration, Policy, Identification,

The European Labour Markets - Differences in Labour Markets Across the Atlantic

Patrick Puhani

Arbeitsmarkt, Vergleich, Vereinigte Staaten, Deutschland, Labour market, Comparison, United States, Germany