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Profit Sharing and Training
Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371879
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Training and Union Wages
Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2004
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale apprenticeship programme and its collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262169
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Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation
Dustmann, Christian - 2000
In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants' behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations where the migrant chooses when to return. I then illustrate the consequences both types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262394
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262574
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Profit sharing and training
Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2011
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282261
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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280683
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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288477
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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation: Longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291374
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003950
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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323544