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This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
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between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …
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This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
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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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