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Formal search and referrals from a firm's perspective
Rebien, Martina; Stops, Michael; Zaharieva, Anna - 2017
costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every frm with an …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don't use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employer's side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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How fast do newly founded firms mature? Empirical analyses on job quality in start-ups
Brixy, Uwe; Kohaut, Susanne; Schnabel, Claus - 2005
labour turnover rates, ceteris paribus. Moreover, bargaining coverage rates and wages in new firms are lower than in similar …
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How substitutable are workers? Evidence from worker deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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Mikroökonomische Beschäftigungseffekte des Hamburger Modells zur Beschäftigungsförderung
Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfeifer, Christian; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - 2006
Das Hamburger Modell zur Beschäftigungsförderung zielt darauf ab, Arbeitslose mit geringen Verdienstmöglichkeiten und schlechten Arbeitsmarktchancen durch zeitlich befristete Zuschüsse, die sowohl den Teilnehmern an der Maßnahme als auch den Arbeitgebern gewährt werden, in den regulären...
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The fall of the labour income share: The role of technological change and imperfect labour markets
Carbonero, Francesco; Offermanns, Christian J.; Weber, Enzo - 2017
The non-constancy of factor shares is drawing the attention of many researchers. We document an average drop of the labour share of 8 percentage points for eight European countries and the US between 1980 and 2007. We investigate theoretically and empirically two mechanisms: the substitution...
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Looking beyond the bridge: How temporary agency employment affects labor market outcomes
Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - 2010
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular em-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment...
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The time trend in the matching function
Poeschel, Friedrich - 2012
We revisit the puzzling finding that labour market performance appears to deteriorate, as suggested by negative time trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias. Concretely, we consider the omission of job seekers beyond the...
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Worker flows in Germany: Inspecting the time aggregation bias
Nordmeier, Daniela - 2012
This paper analyzes the importance of time aggregation in the measurement of worker flows by exploiting daily information from German administrative data. Time aggregation caused by comparing monthly labor market states leads to an underestimation of total worker flows by around 10%. Contrary to...
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Do social networks mitigate stigma effects from long-term unemployment?
Rebien, Martina - 2019
Die Suche nach einer neuen Arbeit, bzw. nach neuen Mitarbeitern von betrieblicher Seite zeichnet sich durch einige Besonderheiten aus, wenn es um die Gruppe der Langzeitarbeitslosen geht. Aufgrund eines starken Stigmas das sich aus der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit ergibt, erleben diese Personen...
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