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incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We …
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The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
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According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … longitudinal matched employer-employee data set from Austria. Our results show that firms with strong preferences for …
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-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring … results suggest that the educational system of Switzerland, relative to the German system, enhances the performance of …
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net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper … between the two countries can be explained by a higher share of productive tasks allocated to apprentices in Switzerland and …
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occupational pension wealth observed in Switzerland …
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This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
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The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a “superstar firm” model where industries are increasingly characterized by “winner take most” competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and...
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A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of …
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