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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring … cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the … spatially differentiated competition is characterized by sorting, crowding-in, and an absence of spillovers: Donors sort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105659
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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers
Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - 2005
. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297422
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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers
Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097627
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527
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Wages in the East German transition process: facts and explanations
Franz, Wolfgang; Steiner, Viktor - 1999
We analyze wage developments in the East German transition process both at the macro and at the microeconomic level. At the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages, describe the development of various wage measures, labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297638
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297934
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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002
This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297956
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - 2007
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298016
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - 2008
from the higher class may benefit from grade inflation since this shields them from the competition on the part of able …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298081
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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298714