Search Results - "Jahn, Elke J"

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IS THERE MONOPSONISTIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST IMMIGRANTS?

by BORIS HIRSCH ELKE J. JAHN Published in Industrial & labor relations review (01.05.2015)

“...The authors investigate immigrants' and natives' labor supply to the firm within an estimation approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying...”

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Migration and Wage-setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration

by Herbert Brücker Elke J. Jahn Published in The Scandinavian journal of economics (01.06.2011)

“...In this paper we employ a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany from 1980 to 2004. This enables us to consider...”

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Help Agencies?

by Manfred Antoni Elke J. Jahn Published in Industrial & labor relations review (01.01.2009)

“...The employment duration of workers in temporary help agencies is seen as an important indicator of their job quality. Most of the countries that regulate...”

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Reassessing the Pay Gap for Temps in Germany

by Elke J. Jahn Published in Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (01.04.2010)

“...As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the remuneration of temporary agency workers has intensified...”

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Birds, Birds, Birds: Co‐Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches

by Hirsch, Boris Jahn, Elke J Zwick, Thomas Published in British journal of industrial relations (01.09.2020)

“...We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age and tenure dimensions affects job switches. Fitting...”

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Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets?

by Hirsch, Boris Jahn, Elke J Schnabel, Claus Published in Industrial & labor relations review (01.05.2018)

“...This article confronts monopsony theory’s predictions regarding workers’ wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative...”

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Looking beyond the bridge: The effect of temporary agency employment on labor market outcomes

by Jahn, Elke J Rosholm, Michael Published in European economic review (01.01.2014)

“...We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we...”

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The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off?

by Jahn, Elke J Pozzoli, Dario Published in Labour economics (01.10.2013)

“...It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers accept high wage penalties compared to permanent workers. However, remarkably little is known about the...”

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FEATURE: FLEXIBLE FORMS OF EMPLOYMENT: BOON AND BANE

by Elke J. Jahn Regina T. Riphahn Claus Schnabel Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.08.2012)

“...In recent decades, economic policy makers across Europe have sought to increase labour market flexibility by promoting the use of temporary employment. The...”

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers’ Job Satisfaction?

by Busk, Henna Dauth, Christine Jahn, Elke J Published in Industrial relations (Berkeley) (01.07.2017)

“...This paper evaluates how a reform relaxing regulations of the temporary help service sector in Germany affected job satisfaction of male temporary agency...”

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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

by Brücker, Herbert Hauptmann, Andreas Jahn, Elke J Upward, Richard Published in European economic review (01.02.2014)

“...We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in...”

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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

by Jahn, Elke J Bentzen, Jan Published in Labour (Rome, Italy) (01.09.2012)

“...As part of the general trend towards increased employment flexibility temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries. The paper...”

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Do better pre-migration skills accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?

by Hirsch, Boris Jahn, Elke J Toomet, Ott Hochfellner, Daniela Published in Labour economics (2014)

“...This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany using unique administrative data that include an administrative estimate of...”

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Birds, birds, birds: co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

by Hirsch, Boris Jahn, Elke J Zwick, Thomas
01.05.2019

“...We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover...”

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The cyclicality of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment

by Jahn, Elke J Rosholm, Michael
2018

“...This paper investigates whether the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment varies over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for...”

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Do firms obey the law when they fire workers? Social criteria and severance payments in Germany

by Jahn, Elke J
edited by Blien, Uwe
Published in International journal of manpower (13.11.2009)

“...Purpose - Employment protection legislation defines social criteria according to which firms can dismiss workers. If firms evade the law, then negotiation...”

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Contracting-out employment services: temporary agency work in Germany

by Jahn, Elke J Ochel, Wolfgang Published in Journal of European social policy (01.05.2007)

“...Since 2003, the German Public Employment Service has been experimenting with the contracting-out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes...”

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