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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011643433
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 1998
of the economy. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill-biased technological change on the … international competition and technological change on the employment share of unskilled labor in the manufacturing sector. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441629
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Regional convergence and economic performance : a case study of the West German Laender
Buscher, Herbert S.; Felder, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 1999
. Der Strukturwandel wurde von den einzelnen Bundesländern mit unterschiedlichem Erfolg bewältigt. Eine Länder vermochten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442407
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563084
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Competition in the German interurban bus industry : a snapshot two years after liberalization
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In … of market power by incumbents – and derive several recommendations to secure effective competition in the industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316405
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Deregulation, competition, and consolidation : the case of the German interurban bus industry
Dürr, Niklas S.; Heim, Sven; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January 2013. In addition to a general description of key developments of the industry, we use a unique route-level price data set to study both competitive interaction in general and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316417
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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, F. Jens; Winter, Joachim - 1999
comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443499
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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2017
monopoly basis, competition does play a key role on routes with a sufficiently large base of (potential) customers. From a … 24 years old and the presence of intermodal competition by intercity railway services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739013
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The R&D investment-uncertainty relationship : do competition and firm size matter?
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Toole, Andrew A. (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650940
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Private incentives to innovate : interplay of new products and brand-name reputation
Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008
their investments. Competition is, however, not localized within a market segment and the class of new or old models, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793986