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Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories

Lake, Henrietta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...

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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of …

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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Nielsen, Niels Westergaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....

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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case

Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …

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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

several tax reforms that were implemented in Germany between 2001 and 2008. Our baseline estimates indicate an overall ETI of …

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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … persistence rates and the absolute level of structural state dependence are higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany. I …

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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour market reforms promoting, in particular, non-standard forms of … contributed to the expansion of overall labour market inclusion and job growth in Germany and that at least some forms of non …

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