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Higher wages or lower expectations? : adjustments of German firms in the hiring process

Brenzel, Hanna; Müller, Anne - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Labour shortages are a field of research that has been investigated quite thoroughly. The reactions of firms facing problems during the hiring process are, however, largely neglected in empirical literature. Our research will fill this empirical gap and shed light on the question of whether...

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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity : an empirical assessment for German establishments

Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in 'foreign' markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms enjoy productivity gains when they are located close...

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Success and failure in the operational recruitment process : contrasting the outcomes of search

Rebien, Martina; Kubis, Alexander; Müller, Anne - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

"Following microeconomic theory, every vacancy should be filled by appropriate manpower after a certain time. However, from an empirical point of view it is evident that vacancies remain unfilled as establishments cancel their search for a suitable applicant. The German Job Vacancy Survey (JVS)...

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that...

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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"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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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis

Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

substantial gender and regional effects, we estimate the selection equations for men and women in East and West Germany separately …

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Analyzing the changing gender wage gap based on multiply imputed right censored wages

Gartner, Hermann; Rässler, Susanne - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

"In order to analyze the gender wage gap with the German IAB-employment sample we have to solve the problem of censored …-Murphy-Pierce-decomposition. As the main sources for the narrowing gender wage gap from 1991 to 2001 we identify an improvement of women's position …

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Bonus oder Bias? Mechanismen geschlechtsspezifischer Entlohnung

Achatz, Juliane; Gartner, Hermann; Glück, Timea - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004

"To what extent is the gender wage gap of fulltime employees due to differences in productiv-ity- related … find that only one tenth of the gender gap in wages is explained by human capital differences between men and women. Re …-garding the gender wage gap in Germany we conclude that discrimination in the allocation of men and women to different jobs is an …

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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis

Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

substantial gender and regional effects, we estimate the selection equations for men and women in East and West Germany separately …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592348

Arbeitsmarktvermittelte Abgänge aus der Grundsicherung : der Einfluss von personen- und haushaltsgebundenen Barrieren

Achatz, Juliane; Trappmann, Mark - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"Drawing on the first wave of the IAB panel study 'Labor market and social security' (PASS), this analysis explores factors associated with exits from basic income sup-port for needy jobseekers to gainful employment. The impact of household context on work prospects of females and males is...

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