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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...

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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - 2005

This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership-related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are...

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Human capital creates insider power

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...

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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany

Zwick, Thomas - 2002

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of establishments as well as omitted variable bias. Using the...

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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2008

This paper investigates the short-term costs and benefits of apprenticeship training in Germany. It calls into question the popular stylised fact that apprenticeship training always leads to net costs during the apprenticeship period. We analyse the impact of the proportion of different...

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