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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2018

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers...

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...

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The Singularity of the German Doctorate as a Signal for Managerial Talent : Causes, Consequences and Future Developments

Franck, Egon; Opitz, Christian - In: Management revue : MRev 18 (2007) 2, pp. 220-241

The paper focuses on signaling options for managerial talent under different higher education regimes. The educational … is a powerful signal for managerial talent. Future signaling options are closely tied to German higher education reform. …

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Returns to open source software engagement : an empirical test of the signaling hypothesis

Bitzer, Jürgen; Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2010

Job-Market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage voluntarily in OSS projects. If true …, signaling implies the existence of a wage premium for OSS engagement. However, due to a lack of data this issue has not been … employees, this paper fills this gap. In the empirical analysis, however, we find no support for the signaling hypothesis, a …

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Entrepreneurship, human capital, and labor demand : a story of signaling and matching

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Nielsen, Kristian; Noseleit, Florian; … - 2015

Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...

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Overeducation and economic mobility

Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five …

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Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...

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Relative wage positions and quit behavior: New evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010

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Unpaid overtime in Germany : differences between East and West

Anger, Silke - 2003

Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...

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