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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...
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possible leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119292
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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861084
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Does It Pay Firms to Register for Taxes?The Impact of Formality on Firm Profitability
McKenzie, David J.; Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the countrywith the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firmsenables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations thatcan affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861371
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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–-2000
Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject topoorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of theeconomy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty, if any, for workers inTAW. Secondly, we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861432
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861527
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level,this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market formanufactured goods...<br<
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863226
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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Habermalz, Steffen - 2010
Research on employer learning has provided important insights into the dynamic process that determines individual wages, especially during the early part of a worker's career. However, the recent evidence on the absence of employer learning for college graduates by Arcidiacono et al. (2008) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135991
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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