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Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace: Labor Diversity and Productivity
Navon, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper studies the relationship between human capital spillovers and productivity using a unique longitudinal matched employer–employee dataset of Israeli manufacturing plants that contains individual records on all plant employees. I focus on the within-plant diversity of employees’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506940
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Wage Mobility in Europe. A Comparative Analysis Using restricted Multinomial Logit Regression
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; Muffels, Ruud; Vermunt, Jeroen-K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In this paper, we investigate cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. The paper is particularly focused on examining the impact of economic conditions, welfare state regimes and employment regulation on wage mobility. We apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789758
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Steal If You Need. Capitulation Wages with Endogenous Monitoring
Wadho, Waqar Ahmed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The importance of high salaries to circumvent bureaucratic corruption has been widely recognized in the policy debate. Yet, there appears to be much reluctance when it comes to the implementation. In this paper, we argue that deterring corruption through wage incentives may become prohibitively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113472
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Inequality aversion causes equal or unequal division in alternating-offer bargaining
Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
patient bargainers that exhibit similar degrees of inequality aversion. Inequality-averse bargainers may perceive envy if … of their degree of envy. If guilt is weak, then the agreed split is tilted away from the Rubinstein division towards a … more unequal split. Envy and weak guilt have opposite effects on the bargaining outcome, and envy has a greater marginal …
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Envy can promote more equal division in alternating-offer bargaining
Kohler, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Bargainers in an open-ended alternating-offer bargaining situation may perceive envy, a utility loss caused by … still reach agreement in the first period and their bargaining shares increase in the strength of their own envy. As both … bargainers' envy diminishes, the agreed partition converges to the Rubinstein division. If equally patient bargaining parties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112839
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Homogenous Agent Wage-Posting Model with Wage Dispersion
Steinbacher, Matej; Steinbacher, Matjaz; Steinbacher, Mitja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the paper we test a homogenous agent version of the Montgomery's (1991) non-cooperative wage posting model. The inclusion of intrinsic costs, related to the uncertainty when changing the alternative agents are already using, alters the outcome of the model in two respects: firstly, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040688
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Monetary and nonmonetary incentive measures: which work better in the Czech betting firm?
Martin, Pardupa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper I examine the interrelation between monetary and non monetary incentive measures and the performance of a betting firm in the Czech Republic. Previous studies have focused either solely on monetary measures in order to examine the positive and adverse monetary incentive effects or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683302
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Demand uncertainty mismatch and (un)employment
Jellal, Mohamed; Thisse, Jacques-François; Zenou, Yves - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Heterogeneous firms facing demand-induced price fluctuations imperfectly compete for heterogeneous workers. It is shown that unemployment may arise in equilibrium because of the combination of uncertainty on product price and mismatch between workers’ skills and firms’ job requirements.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260291
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Aspecte teoretice ale pieței muncii
Juravle, Daniel; DD - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The subject of this paper consist in theoretical study on the labor market. In view to acomplish the mentioned scientific endeavour this original approach is focused on identifying and understanding the mechansim that determine or facilitate the labor market facts. For this purpose is laid...
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