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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?

Coulangeon, Philippe; Fougère, Denis - 2021

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and tackling educational inequalities by providing...

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Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the IAB Establishment Panel

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002

paper analyses the interdependencies between labour demand for high and low skilled employees, innovation activities and …

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Innovation and the determinants of firm survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - 2006

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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Management economics in a large retail organization

Siebert, William Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2008

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be commercial awareness, where able managers raise labour productivity by 17%...

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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...

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Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching

Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - 2005

researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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Hidden action, identification, and organization design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010

Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...

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Education and optimal dynamic taxation

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2011

optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans …

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