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Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2023

A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their … management practices induce sorting of talent across firms. Incomplete adoption arises because worker talent is in limited supply …. In equilibrium there is excessive adoption of structured management practices and too much sorting of talented workers …

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The fall and rebound of average establishment size in West Germany

Kovalenko, Tim; Sauerbier, Timo; Schröpf, Benedikt - 2024

productivity. …

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Evolution of the East German wage structure

Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...

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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

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Minimum wages and insurance within the firm

Adamopoulou, Erosyni; Manaresi, Francesco; Rachedi, Omar - 2024

response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close to the wage oors experience higher job separations but no wage …

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Monopsony and automation

Azar, José; Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, … - 2023

We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor, monopsonistic firms have stronger incentives to...

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Who's got the power? : wage determination and its resilience in the Great Recession

Vilares, Hugo; Reis, Hugo - 2022

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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Mapping employee mobility and employer networks using professional network data

Breithaupt, Patrick; Hottenrott, Hanna; Rammer, Christian; … - 2023 - This version: September 15, 2023

The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a careeroriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported...

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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?

Wolf, Tobias - 2020

duration until the exit from welfare is hardly affected. Focusing on heterogeneity among workers suggests that life …

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