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The Pandemic Push : Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
particular, we investigate how the digitalization level of the self-employed influences the program's effectiveness. Employing …-employed in advanced digitalization stages, who started the digitalization processes already before the crisis. Moreover, taking a … support programs, the digitalization levels of entrepreneurs, and the regional digital infrastructure. The study helps public …
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Kwon, Oh-Hyun - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in wage and income inequality not only between rural and urban sectors but within the urban economy as...
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Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments
Bellmann, Lutz - 2011
We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although the average level of hiring and separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected,...
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance : The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Hentschel, Sandra - 2012
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...
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Is There a Preferential Treatment for Locals in the Labor Market? Evidence from Takeovers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2016
This work analyzes the extent to which local social networks affect workers' labor market outcomes and firms' economic performance. By exploiting variations in firms' ownership generated by takeovers, we find that belonging to the same community of origin as the new employer significantly...
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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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Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil
Brummund, Peter - 2018
Recent research shows that start-ups are important for job creation, but these firms are also inherently volatile. We use linked employer-employee data to examine the relative importance of firm age and firm size for job creation and destruction in Brazil. Firm age is a more important...
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Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2019
Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...
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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 on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...
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