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While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show...
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endogeneity of the ownership status and institutional differences across countries. Third, post-unemployment wages are studied. We … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to … provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …, however, wages are decreasing in the type of the firm a worker is matched with. This prediction of theoretical sorting models …
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positive effect on entry wages and wage-tenure profiles are adjusted according to entry age. -- Deferred compensation ; human … capital ; internal labor markets ; older workers ; wages …
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attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …
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bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …
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bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …
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