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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform
Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019
We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...
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Paying gig workers - evidence from a field experiment
Butschek, Sebastian; Amor, Roberto González; … - 2019
We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...
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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
Askitas, Nikos - 2012
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042970
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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2012
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009582037
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T. - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany : Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …
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The (Parlous) State of German Unions
Addison, John T. - 2006
German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780525
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Changes in the German Wage Structure : Unions, Internationalization, Tasks, Firms, and Worker Characteristics
Biewen, Martin - 2017
in male wage inequality in Germany over the period 1995–2010. In contrast to most previous contributions, we rely on the … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …
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