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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …

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Health effects on children's willingness to compete

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...

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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university … competition …

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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry : evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012

threat of low-wage competition from Central and Eastern European Countries is relatively high. In addition, firms paying … is high. -- minimum wage ; product market competition ; service sector …

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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Strategic hiring behavior in empirical matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more … is augmented by endogenous strategic hiring behavior on the side of vacancyposting firms. Neglecting job competition, the …

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Female labor market transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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