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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2000
The paper intends to contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between criminality, economic performance and social cohesion. We try to achieve this aim by evaluating the existing economic and criminological research and by carrying out own empirical investigation on the basis of...
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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data
Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009
In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences … of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … deviations point to important variation in the age productivity profile among establishments. -- ageing workforce ; age …
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Seniority and job stability : a quantile regression approach using matched employer-employee data
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor);  … - 2007
Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or human capital theory or dual labor market approaches. These models may, however, apply to different degrees at different durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447751
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509658
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000
Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, von welchen sozio-ökonomischen und beruflichen Merkmalen die Teilnahme an formeller und informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und...
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Older workers and the adoption of new technologies
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2007
between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with … a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less … likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528820
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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany . evidence from a quasi experiment
Spermann, Alexander (contributor);  … - 2005
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called ʺTargeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)ʺ is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...
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Older workers and the adoption of new technologies
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008 - Revised version: January 2008
between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with … a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less … likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751821
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The economic impact of Olympic Games : evidence from stock markets
Dick, Christian D. (contributor); Wang, Qingwei (contributor) - 2008
By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results...
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