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Social Custom, Free-Riders, and Trade Union Membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216258
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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963926
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Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069046
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Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour in German Manufacturing: New Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069051
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches: Evidence from German Panel Data
Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Using individual based micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), I analyze the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the period 1984-2004, and compare different wage measures: the standard hourly wage rate, hourly wage earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068718
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Do Probit Models Help in Forecasting Turning Points in German Business Cycles?
Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
In diesem Artikel wird ein Datensatz benutzt, mit dem auch in einer begleitenden Untersuchung die Frühindikatoreigenschaften verschiedener Reihen für den deutschen Konjunkturzyklus getestet wurden. Um die Fähigkeit, Rezessionen zu prognostizieren, zu testen, wird der von Estrella/Mishkin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963873
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Do Leading Indicators Help to Predict Business Cycle Turning Points in Germany?
Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
Using a binary reference series based on the dating procedure of Artis, Kontolemis and Osborn (1997) different procedures for predicting turning points of the German business cycles were tested. Specifically, a probit model as proposed by Estrella and Mishkin (1997) as well as Markov-switching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963987
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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068853
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On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069059
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R&D Behavior of German Manufacturing Companies during the 2008/09 Recession
Eickelpasch, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896184