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How Destructive is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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The Effect of Job Displacement on Subjective Well-Being
Song, Younghwan - 2017
Using matched data drawn from the 2010 and 2012 Displaced Workers Supplements of the Current Population Surveys and the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the effect of job displacement on various measures of subjective well-being. The results...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; rousssille, nina; … - 2022
underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083951
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew - 2009
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …
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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 … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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Higher Wages, Overstaffing or Both? The Employer's Assessment of Problems Regarding Wage Costs and Staff Level in Co-Determined Establishments
Gralla, Rafael - 2012
This study examines the differences in the likelihood of overpayment and overemployment in establishments with and without works councils. In contrast to other studies, we use assessments by the management concerning the existence of such problems. Furthermore, we also analyze how different...
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2009
exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154982
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T. - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155159
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...
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