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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

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Profit-sharing and innovation

Aerts, Kris; Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

our hypothesis by comparing measures of innovativeness. Based on matching (selectivity on observable covariates) in a …

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Using Methods of Treatment Evaluation to Estimate the Wage Effect of IT Usage

Spitz, Alexandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the data set favors the use of these …

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The wage effects of entering motherhood: a within-firm matching approach

Beblo, Miriam; Bender, Stefan; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching …. Using an administrative German data set we investigate three different matching procedures based on information two years … before birth: (1) exact matching on individual characteristics, (2) propensity score matching and (3) a combined procedure of …

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Coaching disadvantaged young people: Evidence from firm level data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...

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Poaching and firm-sponsored training: First clean evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company

Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Fluktuation im Post Merger Integrationsprozess

Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Zahlreiche Studien weisen auf hohe Misserfolgsquoten von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen hin, messen dies jedoch vor allem anhand finanzieller Indikatoren, während eine mitarbeiterbezogene Betrachtung unterbleibt. Kritisch wird die Situation, wenn hochqualifizierte, aber unzufriedene...

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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Adopting a dynamic perspective, this paper investigates age-related staffing patterns in German establishments and their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce rejuvenation - from the inflow of younger or from outflows of older...

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …

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