. Other German labor policies, however, most especially the availability of unemployment insurance benefits for those on short …, German employers rely principally on the adjustment of average hours per worker. The adjustment of overall labor input is …

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive …

features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of … education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a., demographic characteristics and fields-of-study. Second, low-skilled labor … for four categories of labor, two types of capital and intermediate goods. The empirical application covers 24 industries …