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,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits … bonus dollar an extra $3.80 of sales, and $2.10 of operational profit. The results show the importance of complementarities …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
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,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …
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Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...
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approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an … unchanged level of social assistance. -- in-work benefits ; minimum wages ; subsidized employment ; Germany …
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Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...
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possible due to a less regulated institutional environment. -- Service sector ; Germany ; dual labor market ; low-skilled work …
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Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
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large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
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