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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
345 Johannes Hampe
Martin Steininger
Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the ...
(published in: Schätzl L./J.R. Diez (eds.), Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe, Heidelberg (2001), 90-111)
C41 J2 J60 L10 R30
344 Erik Plug
Peter Berkhout
Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands
A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (1), 117-131, revised version available here)
J15 J16 J71
343 Holger Bonin
Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their ...
(published in: Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 2002, 24 (4), 547-564)
F22 E66
342 Wendelin Schnedler
The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models
A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (2), 171-178)
D82 J71
340 Xavier Wauthy
Yves Zenou
How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2002, 4 (3), 417-436)
H20 J31 L13
339 Aomar Ibourk
Bénédicte Maillard
Sergio Perelman
Henri R. Sneessens
The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets: A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to ...
(published as 'Aggregate Matching Efficiency: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990 - 1995' in: Empirica, 2004, 31 (1), 1-25)
J64 C24
338 Clive Bell
Hans Gersbach
Child Labor and the Education of a Society
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 12 (2), 220-249.)
H2 I2 O1 O41
337 Felix Büchel
Matthias Pollmann-Schult
Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (2), 150-166)
I21 J24 J41 J62
336 Francisco Lima
Pedro T. Pereira
Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms
The relationship between the worker’s career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2003, 7 (24), 812-835)
J32 J33 M12
335 René Fahr
Uwe Sunde
Disaggregate Matching Functions
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Job Creation: Patterns and Implications' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 407-436)
E24 J21 J41 J42 J62 J63
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