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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany 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 provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Employment effects of innovations over the business cycle : firm-level evidence from European countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Koehler, Christian; … - 2016

A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper, we investigate the employment effects of innovations...

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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016

The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment...

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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2001

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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Trade, wages, and collective bargaining : evidence from France

Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2015

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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014

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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany

Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …

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