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Wages in high-tech start-ups: Do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
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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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023
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 workers'...
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Performance feedback and job search behavior: Empirical evidence from linked employer-employee data
Pohlan, Laura; Steffes, Susanne - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412969
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297646
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The retention effect of training: Portability, visibility, and credibility
Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016
This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees' retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427791
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The Signaling Role of Note Being Promoted: Theory and Evidence
Jin, Xin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
’ wages increase. I test my model’s predictions using the personnel records from a large US firm from 1970-1988. I find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108717
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of …
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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company
Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - 2008
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few … statistics. We find that the employment adjustment cycle coincides only to a certain degree with the macroeconomic cycle … internal employment adjustments. Cyclical effects are ambiguous. The next step, the determination of external adjustments with …
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CEO turnover in a competitive assignment framework
Eisfeldt, Andrea; Kuhnen, Camelia M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
There is considerable and widespread concern about whether CEOs are appropriately punished for poor performance. The empirical literature on CEO turnover documents that CEOs are indeed more likely to be forced out if their performance is poor relative to the industry average. However, CEOs are...
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Early gender gaps among university graduates
Francesconi, Marco; Parey, Matthias - 2018
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