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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten

Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2001

This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...

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Die gemeinnützige Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Rheinland-Pfalz : eine ökonometrische Analyse des Wiedereingliederungserfolgs

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Lechner, Michael; … - 1998

Dieser Beitrag stellt ausgew ahlte Ergebnisse des vom Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) im Auftrag des IAB und des Ministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales Rheinland-Pfalz bearbeiteten Forschungsprojekts "Arbeitsplatzeffekte gemeinnütziger Arbeitnehmerüberlassungen in...

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Do fixed-term contracts increase the long-term employment opportunities of the unemployed?

Hagen, Tobias - 2003

The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...

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Mobilität nach der beruflichen Ausbildung : eine empirische Studie für Westdeutschland

Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - 1999

Ob und wie lange Jugendliche nach Abschluß ihrer Lehre weiterhin im Ausbildungsbetrieb arbeiten, ist eine Fragestellung, deren Beantwortung für das Verständnis des Arbeitsmarktes in mehrfacher Hinsicht von Nutzen sein kann. Zum einen liefern Abgänge aus dem Ausbildungsbetrieb ohne...

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IT outsourcing and firm productivity : eliminating bias from selective missingness in the dependent variable

Breunig, Christoph; Kummer, Michael E.; Ohnemus, Jörg; … - 2016

structural parameter and propose a simple two-step estimation procedure for it. Our estimator is consistent and robust against … biases that would prevail when assuming missingness at random. We implement the estimation procedure using firm-level survey … data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …

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Human capital creates insider power

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - 2014

-parametric (Olley and Pakes, Levinsohn and Petrin) productivity estimation methods. …

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Female labor force participation and the big five

Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011

Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior : evidence from parental health shocks

Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...

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