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Strategien kleiner und mittlerer Betriebe in angespannten Arbeitsmarktlagen: Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der niedersächsischen Ernährungswirtschaft
Margarian, Anne; Lankau, Matthias; Lilje, Alena - 2017
Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes "Lokale Strategien für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung" des europäischen Forschungsprojekts TRUSTEE ("Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services') beschrieben. Vor dem Hintergrund...
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ifo Personalleiterbefragung – Ergebnisse ausgewählter Sonderfragen
Jacob-Puchalska, Anita - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 19, pp. 35-38
Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag der Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG viermal im Jahr Personalleiter aus unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftsbereichen nach der Bedeutung verschiedener Flexibilisierungsinstrumente im Personaleinsatz, wie etwa Zeitarbeit, Überstunden oder freie Mitarbeit. Zudem...
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ifo Personalleiterbefragung: Sonderfrage zur Rente mit 63
Jacob-Puchalska, Anita - In: ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 17, pp. 57-58
Die Sonderfrage im zweiten Quartal 2014 thematisiert die Folgen der neuen Regelungen zur Rente mit 63 in den Unternehmen. Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse dieser Befragungen vor.
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Working Hours and Productivity
Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - 2005
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
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Role of human resource practices in absorptive capacity and R&D cooperation
Roy, Ipsita - 2015
important conditions for R&D cooperation and innovation. I begin by providing a "beyond-R&D" definition of absorptive capacity … cooperative R&D on incremental product, process and radical innovation. Employing the IAB Establishment Panel Survey on about 1200 … German innovation-based establishments during 2007-2011, findings demonstrate that adoption of employment practices …
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Relative Contribution of Child Labour to Household Farm and Non-Farm Income in Ghana: Simulation with Child's Education
Koomson, Isaac; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
Child labourers play an integral role in households' income diversification process by contributing to farm and non-farm incomes but policies, including that of the ILO have focused largely on eliminating child labour from the agricultural sector through education. This study sought to ascertain...
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The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - 2013
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
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Modelling reallocation processes in long-term labour market projections
Maier, Tobias; Neuber-Pohl, Caroline; Mönnig, Anke; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 67-90
Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong standardization and occupational segmentation. However, it is...
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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