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Why do firms recruit internationally? Result from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002
The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315475
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times: Sweden 1913-1939
Holmund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321430
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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one needs to consider national effects by skill level. The criticism to the so called „area approach“ is based on the fact that native workers are mobile and would eliminate, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282079
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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2010
I show that a CES production-function-based approach with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the employment (rather than wage) response by skill to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282082
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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK with or against the trade unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replace- ment of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (tem- porary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294911
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Home is where your art is: The home bias of art collectors
Steiner, Lasse; Frey, Bruno S.; Resch, Magnus - 2013
America and Asia. There are relatively few collections in Latin America and Africa. The artists whose oeuvres dominate the … markets for collected art come from North America, followed by Asian and European artists. The home bias in private art …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332041
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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model
Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011
artists' job satisfaction. The analysis is based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP). Artists on … average are found to be considerably more satisfied with their work than non-artists, a finding that corroborates the …-employment rate among artists. Suggestive evidence is found that superior procedural characteristics of artistic work, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316841
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Togler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321472
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Is skilled immigration always good for growth in the receiving economy?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host economy's human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or growth depleting if the latter effect dominates.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336021