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The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...
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The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces...
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An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...
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Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...
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Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957708
of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …
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the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …
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a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is … that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the …
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the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323189
of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098441