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The Role of Coworker-based Networks in the Labour Market
Glitz, Albrecht - In: CESifo DICE Report 13 (2015) 1, pp. 25-32
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Employment protection and investment opportunities
Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs; Zeller, Jonas - 2016
We examine the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on individual firms' growth opportunities, as measured by Tobin's q. On the one hand, by increasing job security, EPL spurs innovation effort. Yet that boost only occurs in firms with little comparative advantage at original...
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The Impact of WTO Accession on Chinese Firms’ Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2019
This paper examines the causal impact of domestic trade liberalization on Chinese firms' product and labor market power. To recover both market power measures, we identify a firm's regime of competitiveness, corresponding to a product market setting and a labor market setting, at any point in...
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FDZ data description: "Survey on marginally employed workers and their employers (MinijobsNRW)"
Hörnig, Lukas; Schaffner, Sandra - RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2020
Marginal employment, so-called Minijobs, represent a significant part of the dependent employment in Germany. In 20121 and 2016 the RWI conducted a survey and interviewed marginally employed workers and employers with marginally employed workers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The results of the...
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Geneses of Labour Market Turnover : Job Search and Entrepreneurial Aspirations On-the-Job
Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2005
In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two search processes side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial aspirations nor...
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Basic Skills and the Earnings of Dropouts
Tyler, John H. - 2002
This paper quantifies the extent to which basic skills matter for young dropouts entering today's labor market. Estimates indicate that for dropouts who were age 16-18 when they took a high stakes test in the late 1990s, a standard deviation increase in scores is associated with earnings that...
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Strategic use of unfriendly leadership and labor market competition : an experimental analysis
Danilov, Anastasia; Hong, Ju Yeong; Schöttner, Anja - 2024
A significant portion of the workforce experiences what we term 'unfriendly leadership,' encompassing various forms of hostile behavior exhibited by managers. The motivations driving managers to adopt such behaviors are insufficiently understood. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted a...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and …
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Arithmetics of research specialization
Popov, Sergey V. - 2020
I model the use of research specialization in hiring as a signal of ability. I demonstrate that rewarding for … specialization can make an average non-specializing candidate on average better than average specializing candidate, and vice versa …. Specialization works as a good ability signal only when both good and bad candidates are very likely to churn out good projects. …
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
Conventional wisdom suggests that nominal, demand-side shocks have only temporary effects on real macroeconomic magnitudes and that the duration of their effects depends on the degree of nominal inertia. It is also argued that, in the absence of unit roots, temporary supply-side shocks also have...
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