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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293686

Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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The role of lawyer-legislators in shaping the law : evidence from voting behavior on tort reforms

Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2015

Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...

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SAFE to update inflation expectations? : new survey evidence on euro area firms

Baumann, Ursel; Ferrando, Annalisa; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - 2024

This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

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Recruitment and job applications of older jobseekers from the establishments' perspective

Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Brussig, Martin (contributor) - 2007

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...

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Unobserved individual and firm heterogeneity in wage and tenure functions : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Cornelißen, Thomas (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2007

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...

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Women move differently : job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

; Germany …

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Exports and firm characteristics in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … human capital intensity. -- exports ; firm characteristics ; Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153606

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