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Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017
We show for Germany that labor productivity as reflected in wage is, ceteris paribus, higher for workers who previously acquired work experience in rather urban labor markets with a large local workforce than in rather rural labor markets which are small in terms of regional employment. Our...
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Unemployment dynamics in West Germany : do districts adjust differently than larger regional units?
Kunz, Marcus - 2009
der Arbeitslosenquote geprägt sind, bestätigt werden. -- unemployment disparities ; regional adjustment ; labour mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874340
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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to show...
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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for postunification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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Side effects of the new German minimum wage on (un-)employment : first evidence from regional data
Garloff, Alfred - 2016
employment/ unemployment growth using regional data of the Federal Employment Agency for prime age individuals. We use difference … employment growth for the analysed groups, nor do they provide evidence for an increase in unemployment growth due to the minimum …
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Persistence of commuting habits : context effects in Germany
Jost, Ramona - 2020
Based on the geo-referenced data, I analyse the commuting behaviour of employees in Germany. With the help of a behavioural economic approach, which is based on the investigation of Simonsohn (2006) for the US, I can show that it is not only the wage and the individual heterogeneity that shape...
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The spatial decay of human capital externalities - a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2020
This paper analyzes human capital externalities from high-skilled workers by applying functional regression to precise geocoded register data. Functional regression enables us to describe the concentration of high-skilled workers around workplaces as continuous curves and to efficiently estimate...
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Long-run processes of geographical concentration and dispersion : evidence from Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2015
This paper analyzes the evolution of geographical concentration in the West German manufacturing, service, and knowledge-intensive sectors over a time period of 30 years. Drawing on detailed plant data of 187 industries from 1980 to 2010, we observe substantial concentration that is highest in...
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German robots : the impact of industrial robots on workers
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens; … - 2017
We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing workers, and the equilibrium impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they do affect the composition of aggregate employment....
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2016
One of the key issues in economics is the explanation of unemployment and its variation across different economies … variation across countries. However, unemployment within the European states varies nearly as much as between these countries … this variation of unemployment building on the regional industry composition and technological progress. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515639