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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Author(s) :
Hempell, Thomas
Description :
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor dema...
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EconStor
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English
Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality
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In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase in the productivity of skilled workers and hence their wage leads to an increase in avera...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Description :
The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage d...
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EconStor
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English
Union wage compression in a Right-to-Manage model
Author(s) :
Vogel, Thorsten
Description :
Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by rais...
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EconStor
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English
Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets
Description :
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage...
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EconStor
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English
A bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model
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Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model. By e...
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EconStor
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English
Can insider power affect employment?
Description :
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The re...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Description :
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, ...
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EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Can insider power affect employment?
Description :
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The re...
Repository :
EconStor
Language(s) :
English
Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Author(s) :
Koskela, Erkki
Description :
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor ...
Repository :
EconStor
Language(s) :
English