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seen on this scale in Germany for decades: a dire labor shortage. As even the general public has been made aware by the … Bündnis für Arbeit, Germany’s information technology (IT) industries currently suffer a shortfall of about 75,000 software … specialists.1 However, the focus of this article is not on the labor problems, but on the comparative characteristics of Germany …
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years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we … across countries. Labor market outcomes in Germany are consistent with a dual labor market model. In the case of American …
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Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to examine the roles of individual heterogeneity and job match quality in generating commonly observed wage-tenure profiles. The evidence presented in the paper indicates that once those factors are reflected in the estimations, the returns to...
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It is often observed that despite the famous prediction of Becker (1962) that firms will not pay for general training, German firms do in fact subsidize apprenticeship training. This paper examines two prominent solutions to this puzzle - "asymmetric information" and "mobility costs." Our tests...
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