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Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training : A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Dionisius, Regina; Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial...

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Why Develop Open Source Software?The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits,Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three keyfactors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and opensourcelicence type...

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Why Are the Returns to Education Higher forEntrepreneurs than for Employees?

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...

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Publications:German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic researchinstitutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on thecrucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only beguaranteed in the long term if it...

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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual,job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered...

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor … productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of 2000-2009. The labor productivity is investigatedthrough an examination at … defined. Theyare regressed on the level and the growth rate of labor productivity to shed light on theirrelationships …

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...

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Competition, Group Identity, andSocial Networks in the Workplace:Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skillprofiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possiblelinkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversionand balanced skills on...

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