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• Events // 14.01.2025

  Hiring by Start-Ups and Regional Labour Supply

  conditions influence the probability of hiring skilled human capital. The results indicate a positive relationship between the local unemployment level and the hiring probability of young firms. [...] the paper presented in this PRICE Seminar investigates how local labor market conditions affect the hiring success of young firms. In a first step, the authors estimate the probability of the founder becoming
• Publications // 28.10.2024

  Refereed Journal - Hiring Opportunities for New Firms and the Business Cycle

  firm found it easier to hire its first employees when it was founded during the crisis. These firms achieved countercyclical growth by hiring career entrants. More specifically, hiring in very young (<1 [...] reported in previous research. Our results suggest that market entry during a crisis may facilitate hiring and that policies that promote entrepreneurship may usefully complement policies that encourage labor
• Publications // 24.10.2024

  Refereed Journal - Firm retention and productivity of apprentices

  of young people in firms that offer apprenticeship positions. While the majority of training firms hire apprentices with the aim of retaining them when the contract ends, only a small proportion of youths [...] indicate that training firms, on average, benefit more from separating from apprentices rather than hiring them as workers.
• Events // 27.09.2023

  Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms

  returns to scale, the opportunity cost of unfilled vacancies is lower for larger firms, so these firms hire a higher fraction of temporary workers. In equilibrium, the dual labor market structure makes it difficult
• Projects // 01.06.2023

  Tapping into People’s Impatience for Better Environmental Subsidies

  Conceptually related subsidies exist also in the business world such as wage subsidies for firms who hire unemployed workers, sales promotions in the form of discounts or allowances, or vehicle scrappage
• Events // 03.05.2023

  Firm Adjustments to Worker Absence Evidence from Four Family Policy Regimes

  leave. The authors find that firms almost fully substitute the worker on leave through (female) new hires. They can rule out even small effects on the probability of firm closure in the long run. However
• Publications // 20.04.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Intended and Unintended Knowledge Spillovers in Innovation

  sources represent unintended knowledge spillovers, such as reverse engineering of technologies or hiring workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses [...] significantly higher innovation output. Among unintended spillovers, both reverse engineering and hiring of workers positively contribute to innovation output of firms, with stronger effects for reverse
• Publications // 13.04.2023

  Refereed Journal - Understanding the Unwritten Rules of the Game: Government Work Experience and Salary Premiums in Foreign MNC Subsidiaries

  laws and regulations, but also to informal institutions, like traditions and beliefs. We study the hiring of employees with government work experience as a channel through which foreign MNC subsidiaries [...] host-country work experiences that could create value for foreign MNC subsidiaries when they are hiring.
• Events // 22.03.2023

  Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics

  over the period 1979 to the present. While many have emphasized a stabilizing effect due to recall hiring, the authors quantify an important destabilizing effect due to “loss-of-recall”, whereby workers
• Events // 09.03.2023

  Family Friendly Workplace Policies

  that introduce childcare indeed experience subsequent employment growth, both through attracting new hires and increasing retention. The retention channel is especially prominent for mothers with young children