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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows : Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...

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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees

Chapman, Bruce - 2011

It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...

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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Campaner, Annika - 2018

likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that …

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …

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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples : Are There Spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch....

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Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?

Bellmann, Lutz - 2016

2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size, investments, further training, labor mobility, working hours … panel approaches are applied. As major results we find that productivity and investments are positively correlated with …

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Team Incentives and Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain

Friebel, Guido - 2015

We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …

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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

Powell, David - 2010

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...

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