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Schaller, Daria; Hennrich, Jonas; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2025

This paper documents the methodology, content, and evolution of the ifo Human Resources (HR) Survey, a quarterly survey conducted by the ifo Institute since 2008 that targets human resource managers in German firms. While the ifo Institute’s traditional business surveys capture general...

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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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Complementarities of HRM practices : a case for employing multiple methods and integrating multiple fields

Englmaier, Florian; Schüßler, Katharina - 2015

We provide an overview over different literature streams that aim at explaining the origin of persistent productivity differences across organizations by variation in the use of management practices. We focus on human resource management (HRM) practices, document gaps in the literature, and show...

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Non-common priors, incentives, and promotions : the role of learning

Fahn, Matthias; Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2023

We analyze a repeated principal-agent setting in which the principal cares about the agent's verifiable effort as well as an extra profit that can be generated only if the agent is talented. The agent is overconfident about his talent and updates beliefs using Bayes' rule. An exploitation...

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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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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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Aging, taxes and pensions in Switzerland

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2016

The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland until 2050. To quantify the effects on pensions, taxes and social contributions, we use an overlapping generations model with five margins of labor supply: labor market...

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Social security, retirement age and optimal income taxations

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2002

It is often argued that implicit taxation on continued activity of elderly workers is responsible for the widely observed trend towards early retirement. In a world of laissez-faire or of first-best efficiency, there would be no such implicit taxation. The point of this paper is that when...

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