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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2021
in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316002
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096776
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779056
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah - 2015
logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a dramatic … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016302
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948611