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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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The Opening Up of Eastern Europe at 20-Jobs, Skills, and ‘Reverse Maquiladoras’ in Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement leads to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with unique firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring countries...

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Allocation of Authority when a Person is not a Robot

Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We formalize a conception of authority, which is commonly defined as the right of controlling a person’s actions embedded in human assets in sociology. Due to the inalienable property of human assets, the contractible formal authority is hard to verify and enforce, while real authority usually...

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...

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Spillovers in Vocational Training

Bornemann, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The German apprenticeship system is often considered a role model for vocational education. Its influence on economic growth and technological progress through the provision of human capital to the workforce is widely acknowledged. But recent declines in the number of apprenticeships have led to...

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'A Nation of Poets and Thinkers' - Less So with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...

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Minimum Wages and Relational Contracts

Fahn, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The need to give incentives is usually absent in the literature on minimum wages. However, especially in the service sector it is important how well a job is done, and employees must be incentivized to perform accordingly. Furthermore, many aspects regarding service quality cannot be verified,...

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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce

Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation in a household can be supported by self interest....

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Subsidising Education with Unionised Labour Markets

Wöhlbier, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

It is well known from the literature that a unionisation of labour markets leads to an increase in wages and a decrease in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the education decision and shows that a unionisation of the...

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Product versus Process: Innovation Strategies of Multi-Product Firms

Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product … differentiation. In a simple model of multi-product firms, we show that returns to product versus process innovation are industry …-specific. Demand and cost linkages induce a natural distinction between the returns to product and process innovation. In highly …

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