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Successive Technical Change and the Demand for Skill
Stijepic, Damir - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Skill-Biased Technical Change is one of the most prominent explanations for the rise in wage inequality in the United … firms may decrease inequality. …
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Do plants freeze upon uncertainty shocks?
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias; Meier, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Using quarterly worker flow data of U.S. establishments, we find that an unexpected increase in uncertainty reduces hirings and quits, while it raises layoffs. This finding suggests that the real option effect of uncertainty is less important for employment decisions. Hence plants do not freeze...
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Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
Weber, Andrea; Saygin, Peri; Weynandt, Michele - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. In this paper investigate how displaced workers searching for new jobs benefit from information provided by their former coworkers. In line with the theoretical and empirical literature we find that the...
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The Magic of the New: How Job Changes Affect Job Satisfaction
Hetschko, Clemens; Chadi, Adrian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
We investigate a crucial event for job satisfaction: changing the workplace. For representative German panel data, we show that the reason why the previous employment ended is strongly linked to the satisfaction with the new job. When workers initiate a change of employer, they experience...
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Heterogeneous Firms and Substitution by Tasks: the Productivity Effect of Migrants
Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new micro oriented approach is to focus on the firm level by...
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The Hidden Costs of Downsizing
Heinz, Matthias; Drzensky, Frank - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We analyze whether a principal s decision to layoff an agent affects the performance of the surviving agents. To study the impact of the decision in isolation, we conducted an experimental principal-agent game. We find that agents reduce their performance by 37% as a response to the decision....
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Conditional Patterns of Unemployment Dynamics in Germany
Nordmeier, Daniela; Weber, Enzo - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper studies the conditional patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. We employ a structural VAR model and identify a technology shock and two policy shocks by using standard restrictions. Interestingly, the worker reallocation process varies substantially with the identified shocks....
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employers side
Gartner, Hermann; Brenzel, Hanna; Schnabel, Claus - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper analyzes the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings being characterized by wage posting....
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Effect of Past Coworkers on Job Search Evidence from Austria
Weynandt, Michèle; Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of displaced workers due to plant closures in Austria. Using the Austrian Social Security Database (a matched employer-employee database) we exploit the panel structure of 36 years of...
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Cyclicality of Job and Worker Flows: New Data and a New Set of Stylized Facts
Wellschmied, Felix Maximilian; Bachmann, Rüdiger; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
plants in the employment growth distribution increase their worker turnover during booms. We also find that cyclical changes … booms. Consequently, increased labor turnover at growing plants is the main quantitative driver behind increased labor … turnover during booms. We argue that on the job search models are able to capture non-parallel shifts in the employment growth …
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