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Downward nominal wage rigidity in services : direct evidence from a firm survey
Radowski, Daniel (contributor); Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2009
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793963
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Non-standard employment across occupations in Germany : the role of replaceability and labour market flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2013
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196464
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Does the implementation of the Schengen agreement boost cross-border commuting? : evidence from Switzerland
Parenti, Angela; Tealdi, Cristina - 2019
In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from … European Labour Force Survey, we estimate that the individual probability to cross-border commute to Switzerland in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136852
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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139524
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735905
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Money on the table? : firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204505
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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413662
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Public funding and corporate innovation
Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017
We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772302
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Earnings and employment in foreign-owned firms
Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - 2014
This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415521
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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2005
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287790