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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …
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Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios
Brown, Sarah; Bucciol, Alessandro; Montagnoli, Alberto; … - 2023
We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards bonds and stocks, especially when households seek financial advice "for investments". Having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258262
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Consumers and the Brain Drain : Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2021
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325073
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the home- and host country may also be related to future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129924
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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Profit Sharing and Training
Kraft, Kornelius - 2011
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
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Multidimensional Affluence : Theory and Applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120839
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2011
by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122677
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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