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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 … variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide …
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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Engaging in Corruption : The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2013
Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries that directly measure individual characteristics, corruption experiences, gender roles, trust and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073850
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158060
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Cultural Diversity : A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029152
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157749
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To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies
Arbel, Yuval - 2019
We study how the objective of the contributions affects the willingness to contribute to real-life public goods. We conducted three treatments of a fundraising experiment among religious Jewish students in which the contributions were assigned to finance sustainable supplies and the ongoing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870299
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148078
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089009
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Datenangebot der amtlichen Statistik : output-orientierte Programmplanung als Ansatz zur Erhöhung der Reaktionsfähigkeit
Decker, Jörg; Karmanova, Vladislava - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2022) 6, pp. 27-37
flexibel nach aktuellem Bedarf angepasst werden. Welche Wege muss die amtliche Statistik in Deutschland gehen, um mit einer … need to expand the flexibility of both the statistical system and the statistical programme. The output orientation adopted …
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