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Skill Shortages in German Establishments
Bellmann, Lutz - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051433
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
elasticities of labor demand from a unique estimation of a profit-maximization model on linked employer-employee data from Germany …. Während Verschiebungen der Arbeitsnachfrage, nämlich eine vermehrte Ausübung von Routine-Tätigkeiten sowie die Verlagerung von … Studie untersuchen wir, inwieweit Verschiebungen des Arbeitsangebots das Phänomen der Job-Polarisierung in Deutschland …
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Was There a Skills Shortage in Australia?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2009
The paper analyses the problem of a "skills shortage" in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a labour market in terms of stocks and flows of labour services and human capital acquisition. It discusses the definition of a skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152956
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Job polarization on local labor markets
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401761
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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the UK economy
Engelmann, Sabine - 2012
. Dadurch wird der Strukturwandel in diesem Zeitraum in Großbritannien aufgezeigt. Hierbei wird die rückläufige Nachfrage nach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529598
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The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2021
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319519
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From the Dual Apprenticeship System to a Dual Labor Market? The German High-Skill Equilibrium and the Service Economy
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158673
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German FDI in the Czech Republic : employment effects in the home country
Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2018
Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795276
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E.; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2021
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317022
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The linked employer-employee dataset of the IAB (LIAB)
Alda, Holger (contributor); Bender, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003076588