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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger - 2012

services inputs calculated from the World Input Output Database (WIOD). In manufacturing we find that temporary workers face a …

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Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy : Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Ehlert, Christoph Richard - 2012

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...

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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T. - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods : An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 2021

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimic "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility : Evidence from German Micro Data

Auer, Wolfgang - 2014

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependency which might have spill-over effects on...

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Åslund, Olof - 2009

We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding … within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that change management over time, and when accounting for within …. Separations are more frequent when workers and managers have dissimilar origin, but only before workers become protected by EPL …

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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence

Berger, Johannes - 2011

mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …

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Job Assignments Under Moral Hazard : The Peter Principle Revisited

Koch, Alexander K. - 2008

The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often place employees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second, demotions are extremely rare. Why do organizations not correct 'wrong' promotion decision? This paper...

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