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Entrepreneurship, human capital, and labor demand: A story of signaling and matching
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Nielsen, Kristian; Noseleit, Florian; … - 2015
Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...
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Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs: Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015
Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased … competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to … better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of …
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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
Salvatori, Andrea - 2015
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last three decades, with growth in top jobs always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top...
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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany
Zapf, Ines - 2015
employees and/or male workers. On the basis of the data of the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), the results show a …, the length of the training period on the job as well as job related burdens due to a job at risk and a limited employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335487
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Skill upgrading, wage gap and international trade: Firm-level evidence for Italian manufacturing firms
Iodice, Irene; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015
share of skilled workers in the wage bill is due to an increase in the relative demand for skilled labor. The analysis …. The results also suggest that while the relative number of hours worked by skilled workers within firms rises, the hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335940
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Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015
This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345396
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Die neue Beweglichkeit: Die Gewerkschaften in der digitalen Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Spermann, Alexander; … - 2015
Die digitale Revolution, insbesondere das mobile Internet, verändert die Arbeitswelt radikal. Das stellt die Gewerkschaften vor neue Herausforderungen. Dennoch können sie erfolgreich bleiben und mehr Mitglieder gewinnen, wenn sie sich in mehreren ihrer zentralen Gestaltungsfelder besser...
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - 2015
Die Zukunft der Arbeit wird vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt. Daraus entwickelt sich in Fortschreibung jüngerer Entwicklungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit erheblichen Unterschieden der...
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Müssen wir vor der Zukunft der Arbeit Angst haben?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
Die künftige Arbeitswelt wird - wie bereits die jüngere Vergangenheit - vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt sein. Wir können unter diesen Bedingungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit signifikanten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348193
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Escassez de força de trabalho: Uma revisão da literatura internacional e interpretação dos resultados empíricos referentes ao Brasil
Nascimento, Paulo A. Meyer M. - 2015
least not among the more educated workers. Nonetheless, some mismatch may have occurred. The problem might have affected …
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