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and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage … structure variables on workers' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The findings suggest that equity and social status … considerations as well as altruistic preferences towards co-workers and inequality aversion are important, whereas the evidence for …
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We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
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literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during … recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover at … a firm level. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether the firm meets economic downturn with surplus or …
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destruction at almost any level of firm’s productivity. Model predictions are consistent with dynamics of aggregate turnover in …
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literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model … of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover …. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether a firm meets economic downturn with surplus or deficit of hours and …
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We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439248
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the relationship between job reallocation, worker reallocation and the flexibility of wages in western German manufacturing. Using the plant-specific residual wage dispersion as a proxy for wage flexibility, we find that more...
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This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
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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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We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...
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