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Old dogs, new tricks : Training mature-aged manufacturing workers
Smith, Erica; Smith, Andrew; Selby Smith, Chris - 2010
Purpose ? This paper aims to examine the employment and training of mature-aged workers, so that suggestions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484628
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Gestaltungsmodelle der nachhaltigen Integration älterer Arbeitspersonen in die Erwerbstätigkeit
Schmidt, Ingrid - 2005
for a longer gainful employment; 2. to advance the interaction between generations; 3. to design jobs which are open to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467418
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The Retirement Decision According To The Option Value Model
Kempf, Stefan - 2007
This paper empirically investigates determinants of retirement decisions. It is based on the option value approach to … assess the importance of financial considerations for delaying immediate retirement. In addition, the impact of institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433693
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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis
Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - 2007
determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data … skill ratio, we find that the skill bias effect is primarily driven by a fall in the employment of production workers, while … a weak or not significant effect is found with respect to the employment of skilled personnel. …
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Can Information Costs Affect Consumer Choice?—Nutritional Labels in a Supermarket Experiment—
Kiesel, Kristin; Villas-Boas, Sofia B. - 2010
This paper investigates whether information costs under currently regulated nutritional labeling prevent consumers from making healthier food choices. We implement five nutritional shelf label treatmentsin a market-level experiment. These labels reduce information costs by highlighting and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445865
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Essays on Firm Ownership, Performance and Value.
Petkova, Neviana I. - 2009
This dissertation studies the relationship between firm ownership and firm performanceas measured by firm productivity and profitability. Given the vast dispersion in owner andfirm characteristics, changes in ownership have the potential to translate into differences infirm performance. Chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477182
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Backing the incumbent in difficult times : the electoral impact of wildfires
Ramos, Roberto; Sanz Alonso, Carlos - 2018
¿Cómo reaccionan los votantes ante shocks que están (en su mayor parte) fuera del control de los políticos? Este artículo aborda esta cuestión a través del estudio de las consecuencias electorales de los incendios forestales en España en el período 1983-2011. A través de una estrategia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530604
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The long-term causal effects of winning an ERC grant
Ghirelli, Corinna; Havari, Enkelejda; Meroni, Elena; …
El objetivo de este documento es investigar los efectos causales a largo plazo de la concesión de una beca del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC, por sus siglas en inglés) en la productividad de los investigadores, en la excelencia de su trabajo y en su capacidad para obtener nuevas becas...
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Der Nachhaltigkeitsbegriff in der Umwelt- und Rentenpolitik : ein Vergleich
Neher, Frank - 2004
untersucht die Verwendung des Begriffs im Kontext der Umwelt und Rentenpolitik. Dies geschieht für beide Politikfelder im Rahmen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471613
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Die Reform der Rentenversicherung in Deutschland
Spöttl, Sven - 1998
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