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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022

This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...

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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; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: November 29, 2012

more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …

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International firm activities and innovation : evidence from knowledge production functions for German firms

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2006

sources, too. The importance of these knowledge sources varies with the type of innovation. These results, which are broadly …Export, Auslandsinvestition, Wissensproduktion, Deutschland - Exports, foreign direct investment, knowledge production …Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms …

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The role of firm-level and regional human capital for the social returns to education : evidence from German social security data

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper provides first evidence on the anatomy of human capital externalities arising from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security records, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions...

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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages : evidence from Germany

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2009

This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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The link between career risk aversion and unemployment duration : evidence of non-linear and time-depending pattern

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Ullrich, Britta - 2010

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey data (GSOEP). Using a direct measurement of career risk aversion, we do not find a statistically significant linear effect from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However,...

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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2010

We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the probability to participate in different training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and that longer training measures are...

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Age and gender differences in job opportunities

Humpert, Stephan - 2012

There is only a few literature on age specific occupational segregation. In this descriptive paper, I focus on job opportunities for newly hired older male and female workers. It is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR,1988), who showed that firms employ older workers, but hire them...

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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013

Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...

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