Besides wage offers, credentials like education, work experience and skill requirements are key screening tools for firms in their recruitment of new employees. This paper contributes some new evidence to a relatively tiny literature on firms’ recruitment behaviour. In particular, our analysis...

The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-o¤ between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by …rms to attract and retain the kind of employees they desire. Empirical analysis of these topics are scarce as they require...

This work studies the phenomenon of inter- rm labor mobility as potential channel of knowledge transfer. Using data from the Danish employer-employee register, covering the period 1995-2005, it investigates how the knowledge embed- ded into recruited workers, coming from other rms, contributes...

The purpose of this paper is to test some predictions from the literature concerning firms' choices of methods of pay for their managerial employees, and to provide estimates of the effects of performance pay on individual productivity using individual earnings as a mesure of productivity.

Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment relationship is endogenous. In our three-stage gift-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect...

This study investigates old European couples' retirement choices in order to bridge the gap between the European and the American literature. The typical European family approaching retirement is a dual-earner family: the dataset used in this paper reveals that 78 percent of working males is...

Earlier studies have concluded that the use of self-reported health in retirement models is likely to yield an unreliable <p> impact of health on retirement due to “justification bias”. A few recent studies based on younger cohorts approaching <p> retirement age have found little support for this...</p></p>

Nedsættelsen af pensionsalderen fra 67 til 65 år vil fra midten af 2004 og de næste to år vil <p> øge antallet af folkepensionister med ca. 100.000 og antallet af pensionister under 70 år med <p> ca. 70%. De nye pensionister er yngre, og de af dem, der har været på efterløn, har været det i <p>...</p></p></p>

This paper compares two type of reform of the post-employment wage early retirement program in Danmark: A reduction in benefits, coupled with an increase in the permitted hours of work for participants, and an increase in eligibility age.

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to document the use and the diffusion of the "new" compensation and work organisation practices in Danish private sector firms and second, to examine how and why firms differ regarding the adoption of different schemes. The analysis is based on a detailed...