Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht die Entwicklung der qualifikatorischen Lohn- und Beschäftigungsstruktur vollerwerbstätiger männlicher Arbeitnehmer auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe im Zeitraum 1975 bis 1995. Die Analyse führt zu drei Hauptergebnissen. Erstens wird anhand von...

Summary The paper aims at testing Florida’s concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...

Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...

Summary We analyze the relationship between early-career unemployment and prime-age earnings with German administrative linked employer-employee data. The careers of more than 720,000 male apprenticeship graduates from the cohorts of 1978 to 1980 are followed over 24 years. On average,...

Abstract This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has...