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Job Turnover, Risk Sharing,and Regional Wages in WesternGermany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
.Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover depresseswages at the regional and the firm level, indicating that firmsincur …
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Termination of Dynamic Contracts in an EquilibriumLabor Market Model (2008 update)
Wang, Cheng - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
In an equilibrium model of the labor market, workers and firms enter intodynamic contracts that can potentially last forever, but are subject to optimalterminations. Upon termination, the firm hires a new worker, and the workerwho is terminated receives a termination contract from the firm and...
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Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection
Vindigni, Andrea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion...
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Technological and Organizational Changes, andLabor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno Galbis, Eva - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on jobstability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis inwhich we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of Frenchestablishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863370
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EMPLOYER SEARCH, VACANCY DURATION ANDSKILL SHORTAGES
Andrews, Martyn J.; Bradley, Steve; Upward, Richard - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2001
This paper provides the first analysis of employer search using duration methods for theUK. We model both the duration of employer search and whether employers succeed infilling vacancies. We present the appropriate econometric techniques for dealing withgroups of identical vacancies posted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868963
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both … the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
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Firm Location Decisions, Regional GrantsAnd Agglomeration Externalities
Griffith, Rachel; Devereux, Michael P.; Simpson, Helen - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006
attracting plants to specificgeographic areas, but their effectiveness increases with agglomeration externalities,measured by the …
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The Origins of Entrants and the Geographyof the German Laser Industry
Bünstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
agglomeration economies. Regional public research activities mayexert another attracting force on entrants into science … paper begins to disentangle the effects of agglomeration, public research, andthe supply of capable entrants for the German …
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Recht, internationale Unternehmensstrategien und Standortwettbewerb
Maßmann, Jens; Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 1998
wichtige Bestimmungsfaktoren für Standortentscheidungen von MNU. Die Bedeutung von Recht und Standortwahl unterscheidet sich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840375
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Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentrationof Industries – Evidence for Germany
Geppert, Kurt; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar in terms of per-capita income and productivity between 1980 and 2000. But a number of rich areas - generally large agglomerations - have succeeded in departing from this trend ofconvergence. They are continuing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861694