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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 1990s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …

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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 …

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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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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...

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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...

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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data ontasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital tomeasure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility andwages show that labor...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...

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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledgeand Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, inaddition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, unionwage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship...<BR>

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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...

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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...

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