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The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2022

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot...

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Employment structures in China from 1990 to 2015: demographic and technological change

Ge, Peng; Sun, Wenkai; Zhao, Zhong - 2021

Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...

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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in …

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They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...

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Etiopathology of Europe's sick man : worker flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2016

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment … the 1960s. Germany's recovery started in the mid-2000s after the Hartz reforms, when inflow rates persistently decreased …

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What hides behind the German labor market miracle? : unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics

Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...

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Adjusting to globalization in Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2018

Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased employer switching. Highly skilled workers …

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Long-run patterns of labour market polarisation : evidence from German micro data

Bachmann, Ronald; Çim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018

panel data set for Germany, we follow workers over an extended period of time and provide evidence of both the short …

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