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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children …
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the first half...
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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? Heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
increase significantly afterwards. In the observation period, the gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish …
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...
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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP
Göggel, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte Bildungsexpansion schon vor 1960 begonnen hat. Mit dem Conditional Mean Independence Ansatz...
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
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