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Human migration: theoretical and empirical results

Graves, Philip E.; Linneman, Peter D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979

I am unable to copy/paste a rather lengthy abstract, but the paper provides a detailed theoretical model of human migration which is then tested using a discrete choice probit model.

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Risk Financing in Labour Managed Economics: The Commitment Problem

Schlicht, Ekkehart; Weizsäcker, Carl Christian von - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1977

, more attractively, a reduction of labour mobility through appropriate incentives like seniority-dependent remuneration …

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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...

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Does Mobility Increase the Productivity of Inventors?

Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on …

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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level … influences inventor mobility, although negatively. Whereas existing research implicitly assumes causality to point in one … non-movers. Whereas mobility increases productivity, an increase in productivity decreases the number of moves. …

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Wage Dispersion and Overqualification as Entailed by Reder Competition

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The expansion of higher education in the Western countries has been accompanied by a marked widening of wage differentials and increasing overqualification. While the increase in wage differentials has been attributed to skill-biased technological change that made advanced skills scarce, this...

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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Panos, Georgios; Zangelidis, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-job holding and job mobility and, lastly, the spillover effects of multiple job-holding on occupational mobility between primary …

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Selection Wages: An Illustration

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...

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How Regular Business Has Becomes Mobile Business. A Mobile Agent Approach

Stefănescu, Andy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The age of static business and slow information flow, when most decision was based on day-or week-old data, has come to an end. Now new technology helps organizations provide a more agile, flexible approach to business that was not technologically available five years ago. As a result,...

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