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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany: evidence from an establishment panel

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

are associated with a higher probability of employing atypical work, which suggests that these forms of employment are … reducing dismissal protection decreases the demand for fixed-term employment. …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...

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How acid are lemons? Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...

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Individual and Plant-level Determinants of Job Durations in Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

between long and short employment spells within establishments. Using the Cox partial likelihood estimator, we then examine …

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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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