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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a better understanding of labor markets in transition

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-15

The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...

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Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2006

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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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Reciprocity and Workers' Tastes for Representation

Jirjahn, Uwe; Lange, Vanessa - 2011

Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees...

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Führungspositionen: Frauen holen allmählich auf

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 45, pp. 2-13

Führungspositionen sind nach wie vor eine Domäne von Männern - und je höher die Tätigkeiten in der Hierarchie angesiedelt sind, desto schwächer sind Frauen vertreten. In nahezu allen Wirtschaftszweigen üben Frauen in geringerem Maße Leitungsfunktionen aus als es ihrem Anteil an der...

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Do firms provide wage insurance against shocks? Evidence from Hungary

Kátay, Gábor - 2008

In this paper I address the question to what extent wages are affected by product market uncertainty. Implicit contract models imply that it is Pareto optimal for risk neutral firms to provide insurance to risk averse workers against shocks. Using matched employer-employee dataset, I adopted the...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 2, pp. 161-170

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017

The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...

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