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In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …
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heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random …
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We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …
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This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the … analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the enhancement of teamwork on the probability of adopting new … adopt new technologies and the older the workforce is, the less likely is the adoption of new technologies. Secondly, the …
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Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …
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of age-productivity profiles. -- Ageing workforce ; age-productivity-profile ; personnel management ; HRM …Das Durchschnittsalter der Arbeitnehmer stieg in einem Großteil der westlichen Industrienationen während der letzten … Jahre stark an. Falls ältere Arbeitnehmer eine niedrigere Produktivität haben sollten als jüngere Arbeitnehmer, dann kommt …
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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...
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Humankapitals. Bei abhängig Beschäftigten kommen weitere Motive hinzu, die sich aus der Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehung ergeben. …
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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 …
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