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Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time
Eichhorst, Werner; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2014
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has … dualization is the result of firms which are likely to hire full-time and long-term workforce for its core activities performed by … the core workforce while relying on more flexible forms of employment for other activities. Based on an in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468165
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Monopsony, Job Tasks, and Labor Market Concentration
Dodini, Samuel; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper extends the literature on monopsony and labor market concentration by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration in the demand for skills on labor market outcomes. The prior literature has focused on industry and occupation concentration and likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537717
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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks
Braun, Sebastian; Kramer, Anica; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734794
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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks
Braun, Sebastian; Kramer, Anica; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737510
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Temporary agency work and firm performance : evidence from German establishment-level panel data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891298
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Worker beliefs about outside options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2021
underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801411
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An analysis of the changes in British workers' real wages since the 19th century
Pencavel, John H. - 2024
The increase in the real wages of British workers over the last one hundred years is often attributed to the growth in labour productivity, but this has rarely been confirmed. In the research reported here, this ascription is confronted with annual observations on wages and productivity spanning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582237
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Seniority and job stability : a quantile regression approach using matched employer-employee data
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor);  … - 2007
Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447751
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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis
Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015
Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502782
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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis
Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015
Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472489