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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands
Golsteyn, Bart - 2018
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective responses bias the estimated relationship between parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917092
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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
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Network-Independent Partner Selection and the Evolution of Innovation Networks
Baum, Joel A. C.; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 11, pp. 2094-2110
capital considerations. In this paper we emphasize instead the role of complementary knowledge stocks and knowledge dynamics … innovation networks. To marshal evidence in this regard, we design a simple model of partner selection in which firms ally for …-based structural and strategic motives for partner selection and focus instead on the idea that firms' knowledge bases must "fit" for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209404
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Bilateral Collaboration and the Emergence of Innovation Networks
Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoit - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 7, pp. 1051-1067
knowledge resources, and how firms derive information about potential partners. When innovation is decomposable into separate …In this paper, we model the formation of innovation networks as they emerge from bilateral decisions. In contrast to … much of the literature, here firms only consider knowledge production, and not network issues, when deciding on partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198276
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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127957
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Nelen, Annemarie - 2011
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131420
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Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Fouarge, Didier - 2010
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138267
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117612