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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Bonin, Holger; Arnds, Pascal - 2003
discuss possible effects on labor productivity, wages, and human capital. We also show that the fast-growing dependency ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262234
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How competitive is Europe's labor?
Siebert, Horst - 1999
Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495318
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The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that something is fundamentally misaligned in the promotion process. This view is unnecessary and inconsistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262717
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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement: evidence using random assignment to real social groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - 2006
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267455
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Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany : a spatial analysis
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414243
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Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo; Maida, Agata - 2016
minimum wages is bargained at the nation-wide sectoral level. We conclude that, even in the presence of the underlying market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584608
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The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Aaronson, Daniel; Dehejia, Rajeev; Jordan, Andrew; … - 2017
taste for children. In particular, our results appear to be driven by a declining substitution effect to increasing wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653287
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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Dinand - 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307341
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan - 2015
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise … within 1 cent of each other received new wages that differed by 10 cents. First, we estimate a regression discontinuity (RD …) model based on own wages; we find large causal effects of wages on quits, with quit elasticities less than -10. Next, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307343
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
Card, David; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2015
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307449