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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special … an important message to the EU employment policy debate that currently revolves around the skill mismatch in general and …
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thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
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The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...
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The nature, content and milieu of work – i.e. the quality of the working environment – matter in many ways for people, firms and society as a whole. There is a great deal of evidence to show clear associations between job quality and the health of workers, their ability to successfully...
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employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour … reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall …
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