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employment and earnings prospects of directly displaced workers. In contrast, neither an individual-level difference …
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-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … effect on employment relationships." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
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process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill … specific productivity levels and employment growth. Furthermore, theoretical studies suggest that skill segregation might … matter for the polarisation of wages and employment. There are several studies investigating the influence of the local human …
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"Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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"The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and prosperity of regions. This article focuses on a two-country relationship and deals with the regional distribution of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...
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total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for … local employment offices of the German Federal Employment Agency for the time period 2006 to 2010 and focus on job …
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"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...
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"Reservation wages indicate the wage threshold for which individual workers are inclined to supply their working capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is true, the variation of reservation wages might be an...
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expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical … dynamic employment growth in agglomerated plants. The study uses panel data that covers all western German employment subject … employment in 191 industries of the manufacturing and service sectors. There is evidence that industrial agglomerations exhibit …
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forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market districts on a monthly basis. We first compare the prediction accuracy of …
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