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Wage structure and labour mobility in the West German private sector 1993-2000
Alda, Holger; Bellmann, Lutz; Gartner, Hermann - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592285
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Wage structure and labour mobility in the West German private sector 1993-2000
Alda, Holger; Bellmann, Lutz; Gartner, Hermann - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537115
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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592361
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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537105
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Relational contracts when the agent's productivity inside the relationship is correlated with outside opportunities
Wagner, Alexander F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
An agent can choose to forego benefits from side opportunities and to instead provide benefits to the principal. In return, the principal offers rewards. If this exchange is not contractible, typically repeated interaction will be required to sustain it. This model allows the agent's...
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers’ side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795475
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Subsidies for substitutes? : New evidence on deadweight loss and substitution effects of a wage subsidy for hard-to-place job-seekers
Moczall, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper estimates substitution effects of the German active labour market programme 'JobPerspektive'', a wage subsidy for hard-to-place welfare recipients. Using a novel panel of the entire population of German establishments with full information on unsubsidized and subsidized employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699596
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Recruiting abroad: the role of foreign affinity and labour market scarcity
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"I study the recruiting behaviour of German establishments with regard to the use of foreign labour markets. Applying instrumental variable strategies, I find foreign affinity and labour market scarcity to stimulate the use of foreign markets. Regional labour market scarcity is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719984
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
relative importance of the determinants of promotion determine academics' effort. Because of the specific characteristics of … Italian universities, where incentives operate only through promotion, and where all appointment panels are drawn from … to increases in the importance of the measurable determinants of promotion and in the competitiveness of the scientific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083915
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Herding cats? Management and university performance
McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
incentives for staff recruitment, retention and promotion, are correlated with both teaching and research performance conditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084536