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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297625
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442671
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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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
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297626
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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397046
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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448693
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442687
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394634