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How substitutable are workers? Evidence from worker deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages … Neueinstellungen beeinflussen. Basierend auf administrativen Daten aus Deutschland analysieren wir 34.000 unerwartete Todesfälle von …
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Firm Characteristics, Economic Conditions and Capital Structure Adjustment
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Pensa, Pascal; Wanzenried, Gabrielle - 2007
structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002 …
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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How general is human capital? A task-based approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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Regionale Migration in Abhängigkeit von Humankapital und sektoraler Struktur: Eine empirische Analyse am Beispiel von Deutschland und Polen
Kubis, Alexander - 2010
regional research. Predicting the East German outmigration to West Germany and the potential migration gains from Eastern … Europe is of general interest for regional policy in East Germany. Strong migration gains are expected particularly from … Poland, the direct neighbour of East Germany and the sixth-largest EU country. Even in case of German internal migration …
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Human Capital Formation in Germany: An Untapped Potential
Klös, Hans-Peter; Plünnecke, Axel - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 4, pp. 39-45
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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and...
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
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Education, training and economic performance: Evidence from establishment survival data
Collier, William; Green, Francis; Kim, Young-Bae; … - 2008
We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for performance, commercial survival. We develop a model in which managers have varying beliefs about the efficacy of education and training, leading to potential variation in the optimal...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325994