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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …

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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Grund, Christian; Schmitt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...

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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures: Evidence from the Netherlands

Praag, Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...

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Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility

Fuchs, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm to the workers credible. This way workers in good...

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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …

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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling

Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality. First, based on a …

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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Boudarbat, Brahim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … of time in Canada on earnings. …

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