"The question as to the employment prospects of doubly qualified people (those who completed a course of vocational training between school and higher education) meets with increasing interest. A study published in 1995 and carried out on the basis of the Socioeconomic Panel by Büchel/Helberger...

"The question as to the employment prospects of doubly qualified people (those who completed a course of vocational training between school and higher education) meets with increasing interest. A study published in 1995 and carried out on the basis of the Socioeconomic Panel by Büchel/Helberger...

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...