Der vorliegende Bericht ist eine Folgeuntersuchung zu der von Bronner, Matiaske und Stein (1991) durchgeführten Delphi-Studie zu den Anforderungen an Spitzenführungskräfte im Jahre 2000. Aufbauend auf einem empirischen Führungsmodell werden die Führungs-Aufgabe, die Führungs-Situation, die...

The present analysis investigates skill requirements in the workplace, measured directly by the task-composition of occupations. It shows that the task composition of occupations has shifted toward analytical and interactive activities and away from manual and cognitive routine activities in...

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

Im Beitrag wird der Qualifikationsbedarf von Bankbeschäftigten in Bereichen des direkten Kundenkontakts im Privatkundengeschäft deutscher Universal- und Direktbanken dargestellt. Die Bankbeschäftigten setzen sich in diesem Bereich aus Bankkaufleuten, Vermögenskundenbetreuern und angelernten...

Werden dual ausgebildete Laborantinnen und Laboranten in Zukunft noch gebraucht, oder geraten sie im Zeichen der Wissensgesellschaft auf's Abstellgleis? Nach den hier präsentierten Forschungsergebnissen erweist sich die berufliche Position von Chemie und Biologielaborantinnen und Laboraten als...

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

Using a large administrative data set of individual employment histories in Germany, this paper studies how international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in occupations is used to better characterize the sources of...