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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity
Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019
One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014276
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428248
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany
Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with...
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Social mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
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The distribution of economic resources to children in Germany
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2017
This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children's resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to economic resources by applying an extended income...
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Entrepreneurship, economic growth, and innovation : are feedback effects at work?
Galindo Martín, Miguel Angel; Méndez Picazo, María Teresa - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 5, pp. 825-829
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The future of research on entrepreneurial intentions
Fayolle, Alain; Liñán, Francisco - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 5, pp. 663-666
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The coevolution of innovation ecosystems and the strategic growth paths of knowledge-intensive enterprises : the case of China's integrated circuit design industry
Liu, Jiali; Zhou, Haibo; Chen, Feng; Yu, Jiang - In: Journal of business research : JBR 144 (2022), pp. 428-439
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