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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …
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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...
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Division of Labour and Directed Production
Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822445
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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761817
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...
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Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
Koebel, Bertrand M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822748
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727778
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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269610
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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises
Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour … issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762198