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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520610
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Labor force demographics and corporate innovation
Derrien, François; Kecskes, Ambrus; Nguyen, Phuong Anh - 2017
Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with historical births in each local labor market in the United States. Analyses of firms and inventors allow us to rule out unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106138
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population - in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688036
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population – in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709378
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht - 2017
, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population – in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948695
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht - 2017
, we find that long-term demographic changes in the educational attainment of the native (West-)German population – in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949376
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The impact of skills shortage on economic development in Germany : a mixed method approach
Hertrich, Tobias Johannes; Brenner, Thomas - 2024
In Europe, there is an increasing shortage of skilled workers and jobs remain vacant for long periods of time. The shortage of skilled workers has become a key issue for various stakeholders, as it not only makes it difficult to recruit and retain employees, but it is also seen as a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515803
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Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?
Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert - 2011
In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to inverse cohort crowding or on the other hand increase unemployment if companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286681
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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? : the impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany
Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1
This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) and the decline of Angela Merkel's center ruling party the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). We use the 2015 refugee crisis as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303250
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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium
Furbach, Nina - 2024
groups can explain 4% of the urban wage premium and 2% of the spatial concentration of population, Demographics and skill …This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial … concentration of population, I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic …
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