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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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Employer cooperation, productivity, and wages : new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements
Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022
Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of joining a FNA on several indicators of firm performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414729
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie (contributor);  … - 2007
the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637427
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759023
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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem
Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008
For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763131
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777808
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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2008
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777875
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041
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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771543