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Regional spillovers and spatial heterogeneity in matching workers and employers in Germany
Kosfeld, Reinhold (contributor) - 2006
When job search takes place across labour markets, the standard flow approach to labour market analysis fails to uncover the effectiveness at which workers are matched to available jobs. A spatially augmented matching function is backed by a spatial search model with endogenous search intensity....
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What drives the demand for temporary agency workers?
Jahn, Elke J.; Bentzen, Jan - 2010
general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304318
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J. - 2010
general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135631
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Wage Inequality in Germany : Disentangling Demand and Supply Effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316312
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Bye bye, GI : the impact of the US military drawdown on local German labor markets
Moore, Jan Peter aus dem; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2012
What is the impact of a local negative demand shock on local labor markets? We exploit the unique natural experiment … unemployment, whereas migration patterns and wages were not affected. -- Labor demand shock ; Base closure ; Employment ; Wages …
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2016
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541106
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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287659
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810060
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The greening of jobs in Germany : first evidence from a text mining based index and employment register data
Janser, Markus - 2018
The transition towards a greener, less carbon-intensive economy leads to a growing demand for green products, services … environmentally friendly requirements within occupations (greening of occupations) and to a rising la-bor demand for employees in …Der Übergang zu einer grüneren, weniger kohlenstoffintensiven Wirtschaft führt zu einer wachsenden Nachfrage nach …
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Broadband internet availability and establishments' employment growth in Germany : evidence from instrumental variables estimations
Stockinger, Bastian - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 7, pp. 1-23
This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation period is 2005–2010, when broadband was...
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