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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It …
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(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following …
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This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines … more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage …
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insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are …
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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This paper combines the approach by Guimarães and Portugal (2010) with the methodology of Gelbach (2015) to investigate the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed effects is highly problematic, accounting for 95% of the...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment …
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impact on the individuals' wages one year after graduation. However, there appears to be a partial catchup towards luckier … effects appear to be most pronounced, while at the same time it is found that the probability of part-time employment rises …
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