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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier toEntrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

concerns that thebundling of health insurance and employment may create an inefficient level of businesscreation.... …

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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 …

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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updatedtest, taking advantage of … conditional intra-firm wage dispersion to firm productivity (measured by theaverage value added per hour worked), which however … decreases for higher dispersionlevels. Findings thus suggest that the incentive effect of wage dispersion, predicted forinstance …

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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

probability (relative to nongraduates)of employment of college graduates in the age range 25-34; (ii) their quality ofemployment … measured with the relative probability of being employed with a temporarycontract; (iii) the college wage premium. Using … increasessignificantly the relative employment of graduates except for women in the South where therapid increase of female post …

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Human Capital and Career Success:Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Denmark’s registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along withdetailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure andothers) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to2002, we provide rigorous...

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The Effect of Product Market Competition onJob Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied bythe use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor ForceSurvey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instabilityrises with...

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China’s Latent Human Capital Investment:Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educationalachievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as aneconomic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements ineducation as well as its...

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Information and Communication Technologiesand Skill Upgrading:The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likelyto face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we thenassess the relative...

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generateshypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rightsand especially...

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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn ,Bart H.H. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11European countries and Japan....

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