Unternehmen des Landkreises Siegen-Wittgenstein wurden zu ihrer Einschätzung der Standortfaktoren des Kreises befragt. Zu den positiven konventionellen Standortfaktoren zählen u.a. das Angebot an Dienstleistungen von Banken, Versicherungen und beratenden Berufen, Kundennähe, moderne...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat kürzlich zum zweiten Mal auch für die neuen Bundesländer und Berlin-Ost Daten aus der Kostenstrukturerhebung in der Industrie veröffenlicht. Die Gegenüberstellung mit den Ergebnissen für Westdeutschland macht deutlich, daß die ostdeutsche Industrie 1992 -...

Die schlechte konjunkturelle Lage, insbesondere die schwache Nachfrage und die stark gesunkene Kapazitätsauslastung haben die Investitionsbereitschaft der westdeutschen Industrieunternehmen in diesem Jahr erheblich beeinträchtigt. Mit rund 78 Mrd. DM dürften die Bruttoanlageinvestitionen 1993...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although the average level of hiring and separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected,...