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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537086
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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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A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691302
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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/10010592293
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592346
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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany
Zapf, Ines - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265676
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342805
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293298
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Kulturelle und strukturelle Faktoren bei der Rückkehr in den Beruf : Ostdeutsche, westdeutsche und ost-west-mobile Mütter im Vergleich (Transition back to work : comparing mothers...
Grunow, Daniela; Müller, Dana - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"We assess the relative impact of cultural norms and structural conditions on employment interruption patterns of new mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the regions differ markedly with regard to cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493979
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740434