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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862804
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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005185014
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades?Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear’sTheory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, thispaper tests the “jack-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals performmore tasks and that their...
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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347585
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The Impact of Bologna Process on the GraduateLabour Market: Demand and Supply
Bosio, Giulio; Leonardi, Marco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The Bologna process inspired the Italian 3+2 reform of the university system whichconstitutes a big increase in the supply of college graduates. This paper is a preliminaryattempt to identify the effects of the reform on (i) the relative probability (relative to nongraduates)of employment of...
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands : Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859608
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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes : Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859631
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Invest in the best or compensate the weak? An empirical analysis of the heterogeneity of a firm’s provision of human capital
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Braendli, Romy - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013
The paper aims to test whether a firm’s provision of training depends on the intake quality of trainees. While a firm may just treat each trainee equally, independent of his or her intake quality, firms may alternatively also provide more training to less able individuals or focus on the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739892
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Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training
Kriechel, Ben; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
We investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights on training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of workplace training. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853351
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Monopsony power, pay structure and training
Muehlemann, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C.; Ryan, Paul - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market ÔthinnessÕ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148694