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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11506 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement ...
(revised version published as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 49, 1-39)
J53, J58, J83
11505 Andrea Essl
Frauke von Bieberstein
Michael Kosfeld
Markus Kröll
Sales Performance and Social Preferences
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take ...
(published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905)
C91, D91, M31
11504 Andy Snell
Heiko Stüber
Jonathan P. Thomas
Downward Real Wage Rigidity and Equal Treatment Wage Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Recent dynamic contracting models of downward real wage rigidity with "equal treatment" – newly hired workers cannot price themselves into jobs by undercutting incumbents – imply that real wages are ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 30, 265-284)
E24, E32, C23
11503 Magdalena Smyk
Joanna Tyrowicz
Lucas van der Velde
A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator
We investigate the reliability of data from the Wage Indicator (WI), the largest online survey on earnings and working conditions. Comparing WI to nationally representative data sources for 17 ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2021, 50 (1), 429-464)
C81, J30, J31
11502 Olivier B. Bargain
Karina Doorley
Philippe Van Kerm
Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland
Women are disproportionately in low paid work compared to men so, in the absence of rationing effects on their employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539)
C14, I2, J16
11501 Alexander Konon
Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761 )
E32, L16, L26, R11
11500 Gerda Dewit
Holger Görg
Yama Temouri
Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688)
F23, L23, J88
11499 Martyna Marczak
Thomas Beissinger
Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that ...
(Part of this discussion paper has been published as: Marczak, M. and Beissinger, T., 2021, A new sectoral unit cost indicator based on global value chains, Applied Economics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1915461)
J30, C67, E01, F16, F23
11498 Maurizio Bussolo
Simon Commander
Stavros Poupakis
Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions
Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,)
L14, L53, P26
11496 Steven G. Dieterle
Otávio Bartalotti
Quentin Brummet
Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach
We document two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: from using county-level aggregates and from across-border policy spillovers. To ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (2), 84–114)
J61, J65
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