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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
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Beschäftigungsstabilität im Konjunkturzyklus : eine empirische Analyse mit Individualdaten für Westdeutschland 1984-2005
Hübler, Olaf (contributor); Walter, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
Der Beitrag untersucht unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels für Westdeutschland über den Zeitraum 1984-2005, ob und in welcher Form die individuelle Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer von konjunkturellen Schwankungen beeinflusst wird. Als Analyseinstrument dient die...
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Integrating young male refugees : initial evidence from an inclusive soccer project
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2017
The study analyses data collected among a group of young male refugees who participated in a randomized experiment. Refugees were randomly assigned to a soccer project, which aimed at facilitating labour market integration, or to a control group. We evaluate the randomization process, we discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623422
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Up or out: research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2012
reforms of the last decade. Female postdocs show significantly higher research incentives but otherwise we find little gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510058
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How relevant is job mismatch for German graduates?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Erdsiek, Daniel - 2012
overqualification and skill mismatch is found to differ strongly between fields of study, type of university and gender. In addition, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663221
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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881345
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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013
The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these “university” spinoffs like industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696949
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
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IT capital, job content and educational attainment
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003
Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the "black box" surrounding the skill-biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448176
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An empirical assessment of co-activity among German professors
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2006
The growing importance of technology relevant non-publication output of university research has come into the focus of policy-makers’ interest. A fierce debate arose on possible negative consequences of the increasing commercialization of science, as it may come along with a reduction in...
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