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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
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matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no … start-ups by technically trained founders is best explored by hiring employees who are trained in business. However, a …
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This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
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startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits … employment contribution from startup firms and attribute those employment gains to university research alliances and other … university connections. We find significant contributions to employment growth from university research alliances and other …
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entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper … investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … university until the start-up is founded on firm's employment growth. Using quantile regressions, human capital depreciation is …
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experience and managerial experience gained in dependent employment support a higher start-up size. Altogether, specific human … larger than others when measuring initial employment in full-time equivalents. We do not observe a significant effect on … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …
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between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …
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qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …
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for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …
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