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Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment

Frank, Björn - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...

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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German ….e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (the response). The dose-response function is … planned training durations as treatment variables: If only actual durations are observed, treatment effect estimates may be …

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Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...

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Working Time as an Investment?: The Effects of Unpaid Overtime on Wages, Promotions, and Layoffs

Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last two decades in Germany, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime. We analyze future consequences of unpaid work with respect to a worker's career advancement, such as higher future wages and probabilities of promotion...

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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...

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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan

Kröger, Antje; Meier, Kristina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The financial crisis in 2008/2009 substantially influenced the everyday social and economic life of many Tajik people, including their behavior in the labor market. However, not much is known about the dynamics of the labor markets of the transition economies, especially in the context of the...

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Occupational Choice across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...

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