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Reassessing the impact of high performance workplaces

Wolf, Elke - 2002

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Continuous training and firm productivity in Germany

Zwick, Thomas - 2002

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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs : evidence from a natural experiment

Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In...

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan - 2000

general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …

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