This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that average hiring costs amount to more than 8 weeks of …

apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include …

This paper estimates the causal effect of recruitment competition on the labor demand for high-skilled foreign workers …. I use plausibly quasi-exogeneous variation in VC investments in start-ups to instrument yearly changes in recruitment …

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

possible due to a less regulated institutional environment. -- Service sector ; Germany ; dual labor market ; low-skilled work …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the … ; Germany ; short-time work ; unemployment ; labor market institutions ; internal flexibility …