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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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Empirical macromodels under test : a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Buslei, Hermann; Göggelmann, Klaus; … - 1998 - Preliminary version
In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442295
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Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company
Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805926
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
their effect on innovative performance. First, we investigate how establishments achieve the necessary workforce …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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Patenting behaviour and employment growth in German start-up firms : a panel data analysis
Niefert, Michaela (contributor) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002515557
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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility : evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442286
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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999
In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442339
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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999
In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442433
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Consequences of mixed provision of child care : an overview on the German market
Muehler, Grit - 2010 - This version: September 2010
Universal child care that is available, affordable and of good quality is regarded as a key instrument of a country's social and labor market policy. As full public involvement in the provision of child care is costly, licensing non-public providers can enlarges parental choice and relieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008647925
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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany . evidence from a quasi experiment
Spermann, Alexander (contributor);  … - 2005
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003178554