Similar Search Results

The politics of management thought: A case study of Harvard Business School and the Human Relations School

O'Connor, Ellen - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1999

This article describes the early development of the Human Relations School at the Harvard Business School under the leadership of Elton Mayo and Wallace Donham. It shows how both achieved early success by positioning themselves as solutions to pressing social, economic, and political issues of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166460

Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286

Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527

A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115

Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data

Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011

We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304336

Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016

different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442039