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This paper investigates how changes in work-related factors affect workers' absence and presenteeism behavior. Previous studies (implicitly) assume that there is a substitutive relationship, i.e. a change in a work-related factor decreases the level of absence and simultaneously increases...
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
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, we investigate the employment effects of innovations over the business cycle. Our analysis employs a large data set of …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment … demand losses from old products by demand gains of new products to a substantial degree. As a result their net employment …
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The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …
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This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
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employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der Evaluation der Einführung des Mindestlohnes in der Abfallwirtschaft zum 01.01.2010. Die Evaluation setzt sich aus einem Branchenbild sowie einer kausalen Wirkungsanalyse des Mindestlohnes auf Basis einer...
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a breakdown of production and employment followed by a slow recovery starting in 1992. In this paper, a macroeconometric … model is used to assess this development. In particular, estimation results for investment and employment adjustment after … this paper to cover also unified Germany. The results reveal that the adjustment of investment and employment can be …
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