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Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level
Falk, Martin - 1999
This paper analyses the link between technological product and processes innovations and expectations about future employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation decision in the labour demand equations. The system of...
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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel
Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001
This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...
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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002
Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany. Estimation results of the conditional labour demand for three … Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the …
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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Qualifikationsunterschiede und die Dynamik der Arbeitsnachfrage
Kohns, Stephan - 2002
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 72 (2021), pp. 1-27
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Exporting behavior and the demand for skills in German establishments
Kölling, Arnd; Mertens, Antje - 2020
The analysis deals with the influence of exporting on the demand for workers with different skill levels. Previous literature suggests that this includes two major topics. First, productivity of exporting firms may increase due to learning facts after entering international markets and/or be...
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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …
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