Karl Aiginger, Scientific Committee, Steve Davies, Ian Miles, Reinhilde Veugelers, Wilhelm Kohler, ...
Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer. The work could not have been performed without the programming of Marianne Schöberl and Wolfgang Klameth, the project management by Dagmar Guttmann, and the research...
Europe's Position in Quality Competition (2009)
Karl Aiginger, Scientific Committee, Steve Davies, Ian Miles, Reinhilde Veugelers, Isabel Grilo, ...
have been performed without the programming of Marianne Schöberl and Wolfgang Klameth, the project management by Dagmar Guttmann, and the research assistance of Traude Novak and Eva Sokoll.
Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms (2008)
Fersterer, Josef, Pischke, Jörn-Steffen, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of...
Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms (2008)
Fersterer, Josef, Pischke, Jörn-Steffen, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of...
Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms Josef Fersterer (2008)
Landesstatistischer Dienst Salzburg, Jörn-steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-ebmer
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of...
Do Immigrants Displace Young Native Workers: The Austrian Experience (2007)
Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Rudolf Winter-ebmer
comments by K. Aiginger, I. Gang, M. Landesmann, two referees and the editor K.F. Zimmermann. 2 This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young...
Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility (2007)
Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Josef Zweimüller, Josef Zweimüller, Jel J J
This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job...
Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter, Simon Gächter, Rudolf Winter-ebmer, ...
A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods-experimental evidence
Firm Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job Changers (2007)
Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Josef Zweimüller, Josef Zweimüller
forthcoming in:
Intra-firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance (2007)
Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Josef Zweimüller, S. Raphael, R. Schnabel, L. Ulman
Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger...
Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time? Josef Fersterer (2007)
This Discussion Paper is issued within the framework of IZA’s research area General Labor Economics. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of the institute. Research...
Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime (2007)
Steven Raphael, Steven Raphael, Rudolf Winter-ebmer, Rudolf Winter-ebmer
We would like to thank Cynthia Bansak and Lorien Rice for several helpful suggestions. We
The returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms (2007)
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen, Fersterer, Josef, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market (2006)
Dulleck, Uwe, Frijters, Paul, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. If there are labor market frictions, this additional option can be seen as reducing the chances of ending...
Firm Size, Earnings, and Displacement Risk (2001)
Analogous to the well‐documented firm size‐wage differential, there also exists a differential in layoff risk according to firm size. Using Austrian data I discuss several reasons for...
A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods - Experimental evidence (2000)
Simon Gaechter, Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods: experimental evidence (2000)
Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter, Rudolf Winter-ebmer, John O. Ledyard
Free-riding incentives are a pervasive phenomenon of social life. In case of private provisions of public goods, free-riding leads to inefficient underprovision. Economic theory explains this by...
SPEED OF CHANGE BACKGROUND REPORT FOR "THE EUROPEAN COMPETITIVENESS REPORT 2000" (2000)
Karl Aiginger, Karl Aiginger, Lionel Fontagne, Wolfgang Gerstenberger, Isabel Grilo, Bruce Lyons, ...
Speed of change by
Karl Aiginger, Michael Boeheim, Klaus Gugler, Michael Pfaffermayr, Yvonne Wolfmayr-schnitzer, Assistance Traude Novak, ...
1. New challenges and opportunities 1 2. Theoretical predictions, previous evidence, endowments 10 2.1 The determinants of specialisation patterns: theory 10 2.2 Previous empirical results on the...
Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime (1998)
Raphael, Steven, WINTER-EBMER, RUDOLF
Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the...
IMMIGRATION AND THE EARNINGS OF YOUNG NATIVE WORKERS (1996)
WINTER-EBMER, RUDOLF, ZWEIMÜLLER, JOSEF
This paper studies the impact of increased immigration in Austria on the wages of young native blue collar workers. We find that in regions, industries, or firms with a larger foreign share,...
Immigration, Trade and Austrian Unemployment (1995)
Zweimuller, Joseph, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
In this paper we look at unemployment effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe in Austria. Using individual data over the period 1989 to 1992 of male blue-collar workers employed in the...
Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Josef Fersterer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
In the German-speaking countries, little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of...
Buying Online: Sequential Decision Making by Shopbot Visitors
Dulleck, Uwe, Hackl, Franz, Weiss, Bernhard, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
In this article we propose a two stage procedure to model demand decisions by customers who are balancing several dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of...
Austrian social security database
Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Oliver Ruf, ...
The Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) is a matched firm-worker data set, which records the labor market history of almost 11 million individuals from January 1972 to April 2007. Moreover, more...
Austrian Social Security Database
Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Oliver Ruf, ...
The Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) is a matched firm-worker data set, which records the labor market history of almost 11 million individuals from January 1972 to April 2007. Moreover, more...
Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria
Graf, Nikolaus, Hofer, Helmut, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to...
Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria
Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to...
Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria
Nikolaus Graf, Helmut Hofer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to...
Tuning an Online Shop: Consumer Reactions to E-tailers' Service Quality
Franz Hackl, Bernhard Weiss, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set...
Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is there Really a Puzzle?
Thomas Schober, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have...
Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is there Really a Puzzle?
Thomas Schober, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have...
Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?
Schober, Thomas, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have...
The Wage Expectations of European Business and Economics Students
Giorgio Brunello, Claudio Lucifora, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and...
On the persistence of job creation in old and new firms
Böheim, René, Stiglbauer, Alfred, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
We analyze the persistence of new jobs in new and old firms. This measure assesses the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances. We find that new jobs in Austria last significantly...
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Frimmel, Wolfgang, Halla, Martin, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital...
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital...
Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital...