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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger : An Experiment with Managers and Students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - 2004

After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams … the relationship between executive pay and performance after a merger by dissociating the respective influence of shifts … merger. Replicating this experiment with students showed differences in strategy rather than in substance between the two …

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004

We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes : Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?

Bonin, Holger - 2004

Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten …A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal protection legislation. The …

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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …

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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach

Klasen, Stephan; Wolff, Joachim; Launov, Andrey - 2004

explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we …

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