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Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276083
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Der Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland und zeigt, dass atypische Beschäftigung … Deutschland gewachsen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266089
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959523
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734418
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Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; McVicar, Duncan; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266183
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The Effect of Non-Standard Employment on Mental Health in Britain
Bardasi, Elena; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard ontracts, places, times, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703372
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Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548712
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Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina; Koslowski, Alison; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683651
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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959526
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Should You Compete or Cooperate with Your Schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233797