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Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. A corresponding empirical test by Sicherman (1991), using mobility to an occupation with higher human capital requirements as an indicator...
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data … from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …
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Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …
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establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for Employment Research during the period … 2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size, investments, further training, labor mobility, working hours … working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages, the number of employees and …
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We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and … separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected, we find that the relationship between employment growth and …
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