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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Fries, Jan - 2014

This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …

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Mismatch Unemployment in Austria : The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...

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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...

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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen : eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred; Kohn, Karsten - 2003

Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...

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New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor : firm-level evidence for the German business-related services sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

labor. It starts with an interrelated factor demand system. The "desired" level of employment, which is needed in such … cost and the share of each skill group in total employment only. It also proposes an approach to calculate long …

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The impact of innovation on employment in small and medium enterprises with different growth rates

Zimmermann, Volker (contributor) - 2008

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … strong growth than in their slower growing or shrinking counterparts. Thus, positive employment effects of innovations are …

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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …

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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective

Hogrefe, Jan - 2013

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...

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