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Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …
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The effect of firms' partial retirement policies on the labour market outcomes of their employees
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2013 - This version: July 2013
In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …
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Do firms hire more older workers? : evidence from Germany
Busch, Fabian; Fenge, Robert; Ochsen, Carsten - 2021
This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect labour demand. Do firms adjust their hiring behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at the firm level and the administrative district level, we analyse the hiring behaviour of firms. Our findings suggest that firms...
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Reference points for retirement behavior : evidence from German pension discontinuities
Seibold, Arthur - 2019
concentration of job exits at specific ages. In Germany, almost 30% of workers retire precisely in the month when they reach one of …
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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003363920
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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So similar and yet so different : a comparative analysis of a firm's cost and benefits of apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland
Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...
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Relative price changes of ecosystem services : evidence from Germany
Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022
substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit considerably lower growth rates. Theory has shown that we should either … is scarce. We provide first comprehensive country-specific evidence, taking Germany as a case study. We estimate growth … studies in Germany. We find that the relative price of ecosystem services has increased by more than four percent per year in …
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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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