Based on a large employer-employee matched dataset, 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...

A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...

This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit mehreren Herausforderungen für eine alternde Gesellschaft in Europa. Kapitel 2 beschäftigt sich mit dem Rückgang der Nachfrage in der Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe in Deutschland. Simulationen zeigen die Möglichkeiten eines Zentralisierungsprozesses in...

In their seminal study on inter-industry wage differentials, Krueger and Summers (1988) expressed estimated industry differences as deviations from a hypothetical employment-share weighted mean. Virtually the whole labor literature has followed their approach, yet most studies avoid calculating...