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establishments in western Germany made use of paid overtime work, recording 1.6 overtime hours per employee and week on average …
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Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...
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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 …
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We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill-biased...
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During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the … low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a … unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany. Estimation results of the conditional labour demand for three …
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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...
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