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wages in start‐ups unambiguously predicts the existence and the direction of wage differentials between spin‐offs and non … to other high‐tech start‐ups. However, neither a comprehensive theoretical assessment nor the empirical literature on …. Using a unique linked employer‐employee data set of German high‐tech start‐ups, we estimate Mincer‐type wage regressions …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late … establishments to vary their employment level, consistent with monopsony power on the labor market. Moreover, our regional analyses …
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In advanced countries in particular, the mental well-being of adolescents and young adults is gaining increased amount of attention. Yet little is known about lifetime labor market costs attributable to mental disorders nor the related heterogeneity by the age of onset of psychiatric conditions....
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with high likelihood of being outsourced. And, when comparing wages of direct and outsourced employees, it is possible to … notice that outsourced (with high likelihood) face a decrease in their wages, in most of the situations examined. …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
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In this paper, we study whether performance feedback can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee retention. Feedback on the relative performance may affect individual job search behavior differently depending on workers' relative rank among their peers. In line with these...
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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