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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Controlin an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model.The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment ofand accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is thatentrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms : Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to …
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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction
Grund, Christian (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler); Schmitt, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction ingeneral and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introductionof a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354142
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Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at theFirm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto [133345467] - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
that inItaly, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capitalpay higher wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360613
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade:Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries andbetween high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on howinternational trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate theimpact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360536
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Are Individuals Optimizing Their Wage Path?An Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schneck, Stefan - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2008
human capital theory. It is emphasizedthat hopping from one wage trajectory to another by mobility may beaccompanied with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867404
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URBAN INSIDERS VERSUS RURAL OUTSIDERS:COMPLEMENTARITY OR COMPETITION IN CHINA’S URBANLABOUR MARKET?
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour marketcompetition from rural-urban migrants. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urbanmigration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labourdemand outstripped that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870198
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE LABOUR MARKET INCHINA
Knight, John; Yueh, Linda Y. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2002
Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870251
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The Turkish Wage Curve:Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantlymore responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360532
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Good Internal Communication Increases Productivity
Opitz, Isabel; Hinner, Michael B. - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2003
Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication problems, the productivity of a company can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864357