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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763499
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A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland
Finn, Claire; Harmon, Colm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
as a function of individual and household characteristics using panel data analysis and compares three alternate … approaches; a static, chamberlain-mundlak and dynamic specification. Using panel data from 1994 to 2000, we consider whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703221
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514856
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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269602
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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615433
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990939
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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990941
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884179
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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884237
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884279