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Matching of individuals for start-ups : test of the O-ring theory
Müller, Bettina (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team …, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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The impact of training on earnings : differences between participant groups and training forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a …
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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen : eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred; Kohn, Karsten - 2003
Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...
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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific...
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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2015
collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in …
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Dynamics of overqualification : evidence from the early career of graduates
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2017
' qualifications and their jobs’ educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data for Germany, I find that …
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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany
Bersch, Johannes; Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Bettina; … - 2014
) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active … MUP gives by and large a representative picture of the corporate landscape in Germany. The MUP is a valuable database for …
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Candidate screening for the recruitment of critical research and development workers : a report and preliminary results with evidence from experimental data from German high-tech f...
Frosch, Katharina; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
The report focuses on résumé-based screening strategies for the recruitment of highly qualified research and development (R&D) workers (critical R&D workers) in high-tech firms. We investigate which kinds of professional background, job-related experience, motivations, specific skills, and...
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