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Short-term price rigidity in an endogenous growth model: Non-Superneutrality and a non-vertical long-term Phillips-curve
Funk, Peter; Kromen, Bettina - Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und … - 2006
This model analyses the interaction between inflation and the long-run levels of employment and output growth in a … equilibrium, both employment and growth are hump-shaped functions of money growth peaking at positive inflation rates. This is due … to four effects of money growth under rigidity: Erosion of its relative price through inflation and the optimal initial …
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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 … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …
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Job characteristics and their effect on the intention to quit apprenticeship
Seidel, Katja - 2016
This paper investigates job characteristics that German training companies could use as a signal to apprentices to lower the quit intentions of apprentices and further to maximize their own probability to cover occurred net costs. Moreover, the results could also be used as policy implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616228
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The currency of reciprocity - gift-exchange in the workplace
Kube, Sebastian; Maréchal, Michel André; Puppe, Clemens - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe … - 2011
What determines reciprocity in employment relations? We conducted a controlled field experiment to measure the extent to which monetary and non-monetary gifts affect workers' performance. We find that nonmonetary gifts have a much stronger impact than monetary gifts of equivalent value. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024645
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Labor demand and unequal payment: Does wage inequality matter? Analyzing the influence of intra-firm wage dispersion on labor demand with German employer-employee data
Kölling, Arnd - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion and establishments' employment in a theoretical analysis and empirical regressions using German "Linked Employer-Employee Data from the IAB" (LIAB) for the years of 1996 through 2008. Therefore, fractional probit models for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478935
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Household Specialization and the Labor-Supply Elasticities of Women and Men
Bredemeier, Christian - Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und … - 2015
This paper studies gender differences in the elasticity of labor supply in a model of household specialization. I show that household specialization implies larger Frisch elasticities for the partner that specializes in home production. Quantitatively, empirical time-use ratios alone imply...
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Labor Demand and Unequal Payment: Does Wage Inequality matter? Analyzing the Influence of Intra-firm Wage Dispersion on Labor Demand with German Employer-Employee Data
Kölling, Arnd - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion and establishments’ employment in a theoretical analysis and empirical regressions using German “Linked Employer-Employee Data from the IAB” (LIAB) for the years of 1996 through 2008. Therefore, fractional probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095643
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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294473
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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
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Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …
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