Similar Search Results

Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346

Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?

Hübler, Olaf - 2012

This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests and specifications yield robust results that permit one to answer this question in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107732

Investment Under Company-Level Pacts

Bellmann, Lutz - 2013

To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087394

Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction

Bellmann, Lutz - 2018

This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908905

Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?

Bellmann, Lutz - 2016

This contribution investigates whether working time accounts are beneficial for the performance of German establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for Employment Research during the period 2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002444

Skill Shortages in German Establishments

Bellmann, Lutz - 2014

This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, we analyze the importance of firm characteristics and that of some specific...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051433

The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation

Hübler, Olaf - 2011

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756948

Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?

Hübler, Olaf - 2010

, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147545

Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Cornelißen, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - 2021

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317122

Is There a Trade-Off between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?

Hübler, Dominik; Hübler, Olaf - 2021

This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317497