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In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...
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This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel...
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). We find that a rise in the average age of a company's workforce has a negative impact on innovation, but age diversity …-specific knowledge gained during employment within a company. …
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This paper represents the first application of a novel strategy to estimate peer effects in education in a developing country. It provides evidence on peer effects in standardized tests by exploiting a unique data set on social networks in Uruguayan primary schools. The identification method...
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and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …
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Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare...
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In angelsächsischen Ländern stellen Gewerkschaften einen bedeutsamen Indikator für verschiedene Kennzahlen der betrieblichen Leistungserstellung dar. Das gleiche gilt für die deutsche Form der betrieblichen Interessenvertretung - den Betriebsrat. Unter Verwendung des IAB-Betriebspanels...
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