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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2008
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
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Occupational upgrading and the business cycle in West Germany
Büttner, Thomas; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Ludsteck, Johannes - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-10, pp. 1-37
The occupational skill structure depends on the business cycle if employers respond to shortages of applicants during upturns by lowering their hiring standards. Devereux uses this implication to construct empirical tests for the notion of hiring standards adjustment (the so-called Reder...
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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation
Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010
This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300516
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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job °ows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300686
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The acceptance of earnings losses after voluntary mobility
Schneck, Stefan - 2010
Because rational individuals know that they cannot always get what they want, they are assumed to make appropriate adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of commuting on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300753
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Schwerpunktbericht zur Innovationserhebung 2006: Internationalisierung von Innovationsaktivitäten - Wissensgewinn und -verlust durch Mitarbeiterfluktuation
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
Produktneuheiten; Investition in neue Verfahren; Verkauf neuer Produkte. Für Unternehmen, die in Deutschland Innovationsaktivitäten … aus Deutschland sind auch im Ausland innovativ tätig. Während 14 % ausschließlich über den Verkauf von Produktneuheiten an … Investitionen in neue Verfahren finden seltener an Auslandsstandorten statt. Von allen Unternehmen mit FuEAktivitäten in Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300967
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302606
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302619
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The acceptance of earnings losses after voluntary mobility
Schneck, Stefan - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-2, pp. 1-47
Because rational individuals know that they cannot always get what they want, they are assumed to make appropriate adjustments. However, little is known about trade-off reasoning in labor market mobility decision making. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of job-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304315