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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity : an empirical assessment for German establishments

Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - 2015

knowledge spillovers and other positive externalities. In such a stimulating environment, firms become more prone to be … interaction of distinct knowledge and related problem-solving abilities increases productivity and secures export success. In this … to 250 employees) benefit most from externalities and especially from knowledge spillover. There is weak evidence …

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Produtividade do trabalho nos setores formal e informal no Brasil : uma avaliação do período recente

Squeff, Gabriel Coelho - 2015

In this paper we discuss the evolution of labor productivity in the formal, informal and other households units sectors disaggregated by economic activity. Based on a modified shift-share that deals with the loss of additivity problem, we found that aggregate productivity grew 7% between 2001...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...

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What could all the money do? : Ergebnisse eines faktoriellen Surveys zur Bedeutung von Opportunitätskosten bei Weiterbildungsentscheidungen

Osiander, Christopher; Dietz, Martin - 2015

Öffentlich geförderte Weiterbildungen für Arbeitslose sind ein wichtiges Instrument der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Neben formalen Voraussetzungen ist auch die Bereitschaft der potenziell Geförderten wichtig, weil sie die individuelle Teilnahmeentscheidung und den erfolgreichen Abschluss...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

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Biotecnologia: perfil dos grupos de pesquisa no Brasil

Mendonça, Marco Aurélio Alves de; Freitas, Rogério … - 2009

statistical analysis. The database was set up exclusively for this study starting from information of the innovation website of …

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Do initial conditions persist between firms? : an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data

Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2007

Einflussreiche Studien gehen davon aus, dass sich die Bedingungen beim Berufseinstieg langfristig auf den Berufsverlauf von Arbeitskräften im Betrieb auswirken. Obwohl es unter Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern seit langem umstritten ist, ob die anhaltenden Lohnunterschiede zwischen Betrieben und...

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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2008

Dass Arbeitsmarkt-Pooling einer der Vorteile von Ballungsräumen ist, ist zwar empirisch belegt, theoretisch jedoch nur gering fundiert. Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Humankapitalbildung in einem imperfekten kompetitiven gepoolten Arbeitsmarkt mit heterogenen Arbeitskräften und Unternehmen...

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A evolução da segregação por qualificação profissional ao nível das firmas

Bahia, Luiz Dias; Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz; Silva, … - 2009

This article measures the evolution of segregation by skill level among firms in the Brazilian formal labor market from 1996 to 2005. We define segregation as firms having a labor force composition by skill different from the labor market as a whole. We measure segregation using four different...

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Notas sobre informalidade, produtividade do trabalho e grau de utilização e seus impactos sobre o crescimento econômico no Brasil nos anos 2000

Amitrano, Claudio Roberto; Squeff, Gabriel Coelho - 2016

This paper aims at discussing the implications of informality in Brazil by presenting new evidence on value added, occupations, and in labor productivity in the formal and informal sectors, disaggregated by economic activity. Moreover, we developed counterfactual exercises for these variables in...

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