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This NEUJOBS research report focuses on links between age, productivity and lifelong learning. Various data sources (EU … strongly influenced by the timing of entering and leaving labour market. An estimation of the impact of LLL on productivity …
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Human capital and deferred compensation might explain why firms employ but do not hire older workers. Adjustments of wage-tenure profiles for older new entrants are explored in the context of deferred compensation. From an equity theory perspective, such adjustments might lead to adverse...
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firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm …-level production functions, taking into account that worker ability and firm productivity may interact at the match level. Using German …, driven by new matches between low-productivity firms and low-ability workers. At the top, sorting decreases, reflected in …
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that synergies among skilled (technical) labor, computers, and machinery capital have productivity- and skilled wage …-enhancing effects that could contribute to productivity convergence of developing toward developed countries, even with their differing …
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firms with heterogeneous productivity match with politicians with different political strength. Our results indicate a …
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bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … empirical analysis confirms this hypothesis. The presence of works councils exerts a positive impact on productivity within the …
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bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … empirical analysis confirms this hypothesis. The presence of works councils exerts a positive impact on productivity within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402748
The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political agenda. Due to endogenous human capital depreciation the effective retirement age is often below statutory retirement age resulting in permanent non-employability of older...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999038