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Age and productivity: Sector differences?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323189
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694117
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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098441
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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?
Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957710
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Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II
Aldashev, Alisher; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Diese Arbeit untersucht die erwerbsfÄahig eingestuften Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II, die mindestens einmal Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 bezogen haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 16% der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 während des Zeitraums 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479057
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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097802
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The sorting of female careers after first birth: A competing risks analysis of maternity leave duration
Arntz, Melanie; Dlugosz, Stephan; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
A number of contributions have found evidence for motherhood being a critical life event for women's employment careers. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition into a number of states related to employment and...
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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence: Evidence from Germany
Guertzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...
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Are we spending too many years in school? Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of shortening the duration of secondary schooling on the accumulation of human capital. In 2003, an educational policy reform was enacted in Saxony-Anhalt, a German state, providing a natural experimental setting. The thirteenth year of schooling was eliminated for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556005
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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …
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