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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

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The demand for labor : an analysis using matched employer-employee data from the German LIAB ; will the high unskilled worker own-wage elasticity please stand up?

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005

Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled labor and between the manufacturing and … trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other …

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Are working time accounts beneficial for German establishments?

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2015

2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size, investments, further training, labor mobility, working hours … working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages, the number of employees and …

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Determinants of employer-provided further training : a multi-level approach

Bellmann, Lutz; Hohendanner, Christian; Hujer, Reinhard - 2010

We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment rate and the regional concentration of an industry against the background of several determinants...

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Investment under company-level pacts

Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - 2013

To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments. In order to reduce wage costs company-specific deviations from industry-level wage contracts are concluded. Company-level pacts between the management and the works council...

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Skill shortages in German establishments

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2014

This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, we analyze the importance of firm characteristics and that of some specific...

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Job and worker turnover in German establishments

Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Upward, Richard - 2011

separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected, we find that the relationship between employment growth and …

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Unions, works councils and plant closings in Germany

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - 2002

This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective … encourage a sanguine view of recent legislation in Germany that facilitates the formation of works councils and strengthens …

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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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