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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer
Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014
We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
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Teamwork and intra-firm wage dispersion among blue-collar workers
Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers. We also show that moderating factors play an important role. While teamwork...
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Terra Incognita : Forschungsleistungen und Qualifizierungswege des deutschsprachigen Hochschulslehrernachwuchses für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Fiedler, Marina; Welpe, Isabell M.; Picot, Arnold - In: Die Betriebswirtschaft : DBW 66 (2006) 4, pp. 464-486
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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor);  … - 2006
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest...
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Minimum wages and training
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 15 (2008) 6, pp. 1223-1237
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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
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Determinants of lifetime unemployment : a micro data analysis with censored quantile regressions
Schmillen, Achim; Möller, Joachim - 2010
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span 1975-2004 to investigate individual lifetime unemployment (defined as the total length of all...
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How general is human capital? : A task-based approach
Gathmann, Christina (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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