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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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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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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 German Labor Market after the Great Recession : Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099760
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The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2013
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074199
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany than Men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne - 2017
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany – as a conservative welfare state – women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957485
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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2020
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857538
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137252