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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions
Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Of the typically cited agglomeration advantages labor market pooling receives strong empirical support - yet remains under-explored theoretically. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592432
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Labour market dynamics from a regional perspective : the multi-account system
Haas, Anette; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
understand ungoing development. A pure sequence of employment and unemployment figures would hide the turnover in the market … agency Heilbronn some practice and numerical examples. Thus we present transitions into and out of unemployment and also from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592446
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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms : a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592456
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Are real entry wages rigid over the business cycle? : Empirical evidence for Germany from 1977 to 2009
Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
find that an increase in the unemployment rate of one percentage point decreases the real wages of job entries within given … rigidity in the Mortensen- Pissarides model in order to amplify realistic volatility of unemployment is not supported by the … unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592484
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Are real entry wages rigid over the business cycle? : Empirical evidence for Germany from 1977 to 2009
Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
find that an increase in the unemployment rate of one percentage point decreases the real wages of job entries within given … rigidity in the Mortensen- Pissarides model in order to amplify realistic volatility of unemployment is not supported by the … unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641641
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Do reservation wages react to regional unemployment?
Blien, Uwe; Messmann, Susanne; Trappmann, Mark - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … estimated in many empirical studies. Up to now, the connection of regional unemployment with reservation wages has not been … between unemployment and reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641645
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The labour markets in Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, and Sweden 2006-2010 : Developments and challenges for the future
Klinger, Sabine; Spitznagel, Eugen; Alatalo, Johanna; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"Via the International Labour Market Forecasting Network, forecasters of the public employment services or comparable institutes from the Nordic countries as well as Germany and Austria exchange their analyses about the current and future development of the national economies and labour markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643583
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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms : a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342798
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537105