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Demystifying the German Armament Miracle During World War Ii : New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers
Streb, Jochen; Scherner, Jonas; Budrass, Lutz - 2015
Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions - und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50% of the German aircraft producers. We...
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2022
decades after the reunification of Germany. …
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Micro-mechanisms behind declining labor shares : rising market power and changing modes of production
Mertens, Matthias - In: International journal of industrial organization 81 (2022), pp. 1-18
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The Layoff Generation : How Generative Ai Will Reshape Employment and Labor Markets
Huang, Qiwen; Shen, Yifan; Sun, Yuanchi; Zhang, Tony - 2023
This research presents a new metric known as "AI Augmentation," aimed at quantifying the influence of generative AI across diverse job roles, organizations, and sectors. The analysis defies prevailing expectations of job losses due to AI, instead demonstrating a reverse correlation between AI...
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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations
Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897954
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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations
Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900858
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275389
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Technological progress, occupational structure and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022
We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281272
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German robots : the impact of industrial robots on workers
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens; … - 2017
impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs …
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The effect of broadband internet on establishments' employment growth : evidence from Germany
Stockinger, Bastian - 2017
. The analysis uses data for Germany in the years 2005-2009, when broadband was introduced in rural regions of Western … Germany and in large parts of Eastern Germany. Technical frictions in broadband rollout are exploited to obtain exogenous … respective sectors. For Eastern Germany, no significant employment growth effects are found. …
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