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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question

Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...

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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models

Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

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Structural change and performance of the German environmental sector

Horbach, Jens; Blien, Uwe; Hauff, Michael von - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"The so-called Environmental Sector produces technologies, products and services that prevent or reduce environmental damages. On the background of growing environmental problems such as climate protection this sector seems to be more and more important. Contrary to that, a theoretical model...

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Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?

Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to 'inverse cohort crowding' or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …

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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth

Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....

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Regional employment forecasts with spatial interdependencies

Hampel, Katharina; Kunz, Marcus; Schanne, Norbert; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...

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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people

Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....

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Churning and institutions : Dutch and German establishments compared with micro-level data

Alda, Holger; Allaart, Piet; Bellmann, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour …, regulation, and social security systems will show the importance of these institutions for the mobility of individuals. In this … market institutions exerting some influence on churning appear to be: the share of fixed term contracts in total employment …

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Demographic effects on the German labour supply : a decomposition analysis

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Forecasts show a substantially decreasing and ageing labour force in Germany. This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age...

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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004

"Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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