This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors de …This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions in-duced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the … between the factors that have an impact on employment increases and employment decreases. The data stem from a telephone …

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric … during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job …

investments nevertheless. When outsiders have an effective entry threat, insiders are forced to accept higher employment of … outsiders and share the reduced rents with them. However, full employment is not necessarily reached and in any case investments …

normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than … of the bridge options. Therefore mainly employers with high employment adaption costs induced employees to use a bridge …