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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346
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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
Bandick, Roger - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158617
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Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages : New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928501
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Employment Adjustments Around Childbirth
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2016
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000059
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778974
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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labor Market
Bargain, Olivier - 2006
We assess the labor supply effects of two quot;making work payquot; reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780457
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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017
participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966067
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Rubble Women : The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117838
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457