The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting … activity. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods it is shown that patenting activity has a …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

applied to a newly constructed panel for Germany. Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation techniques for dynamic panel …

, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market … throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …