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How Acid are Lemons? Adverse Selection and Signalling for Skilled Labour Market Entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

This paper for the first time jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection, signalling and indices on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on...

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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...

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Good Occupation – Bad Occupation? The Quality of Apprenticeship Training

Zwick, Thomas; Goeggel, Kathrin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009

Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer...

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Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This paper demonstrates that the share of apprentices exhibits a relatively strong seasonal pattern. This means that statistics on the share of apprentices such as those presented in official publications differ substantially from the actual yearly mean if they are measured on a date close to...

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Why do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of replacing unskilled or semi-skilled employees by apprentices on establishment performance. We use representative matched employer–employee panel data and correct for different sources of estimation biases. We show that an increase of the proportion of...

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Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Apprenticeship Training

Zwick, Thomas; Goeggel, Kathrin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

Relatively small average wage effects of employer and occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling backgrounds. Employer and occupation changers in industrial occupations enjoy large wage advantages,...

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POACHING AND FIRM SPONSORED TRAINING: FIRST CLEAN EVIDENCE

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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The singularity of the German doctorate as a signal for talent: Causes, consequences and future developments

Franck, Egon; Opitz, Christian - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2004

Internationally unparalleled fractions of doctoral degree holders among German top managers and superior career perspectives for German university graduates holding a doctoral degree suggest that the traditional German doctorate has not been primarily perceived as a specialized indicator for...

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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition of knowledge on the technology market and cooperate actively in R …

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