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Matching of individuals for start-ups : test of the O-ring theory

Müller, Bettina (contributor) - 2008

In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339

Workers into managers - developing leadership competence of production unit managers

Rappe, Christoph (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership …

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Investigating JEEM empirically : a story of co-authorship and collaboration

Schymura, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2012

We examine the incidence and extent of co-authorship and intellectual collaboration in the leading journal of environmental and resource economics: the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Previous studies of general economic journals have offered empirical evidence for the fact...

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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012

We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...

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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...

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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce

Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008

analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the enhancement of teamwork on the probability of adopting new …, firms which enhanced their teamwork and have a higher share of younger workers are less likely to adopt new technologies … whereas firms that enhanced their teamwork and have a higher share of older employees are more likely to adopt new …

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

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