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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling 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 apprenticeship wages. It shows...

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Why Pay Seniority Wages?

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation...

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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain … separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences …. The second strain explains the employment structure on the basis of establishment data, but cannot properly calculate …

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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...

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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the … between the factors that have an impact on employment increases and employment decreases. The data stem from a telephone … employment changes if they are substantial and if they are induced by regulations. Firms expecting increasing sales are more …

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …

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Age and productivity: Sector differences?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...

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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...

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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...

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