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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...
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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets
Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019
Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and across space, we find that photovoltaic installations...
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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1997
In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...
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Effects of subsidizing the firstemployee - Empirical evidence from Finland
Nivala, Annika - 2019
This paper studies the effects of a first employee wage subsidy imple-mented in parts of Finland in 2007â 2011 using the universe of Finnishfirms. The subsidy, amounting to 30% of the wage costs of the firstemployee in the first year and 15% in the second, was targeted to en-trepreneurs without...
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Labor shortage and innovation
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and...
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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - 2018
How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East German industries which led to unexpected, exogenous, and...
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The labor demand effects of refugee immigration : evidence from a natural experiment
Berbée, Paul; Brücker, Herbert; Garloff, Alfred; … - 2022
We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration-induced labor demand effect. For empirical...
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Structural shocks and political participation in the US
Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, Sampsa - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the large structural shocks - automation and import competition - on voter turnout during US federal elections from 2000 to 2016. Although the negative income effect of both shocks is comparable, we find that political participation decreases significantly in...
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How does democracy cause growth?
Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Eberhardt, Markus - 2023 - This version: July 6th, 2023
institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …
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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing
Falk, Martin - 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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