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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Occupational routine-intensity and the costs of job loss : evidence from mass layoffs
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2019
This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupa-tions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144957
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Occupational routine-intensity and the costs of job loss : evidence from mass layoffs
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2019
This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149049
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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090451
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Going Offshore: Investments in German Wind Energy under Uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307068
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Going offshore : investments in German wind energy under uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283826
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Going Offshore : Investments in German Wind Energy Under Uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2015
Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German offshore wind farms. The focus of the analysis is the mode of action of the German feed-in tariff system for offshore wind energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019855
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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999
unemployment rates since 1993 in combination with transition payments for the unemployed to start their own business can explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442339
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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998
and firm development. While firm survival seems to be negatively affected by foundation from unemployment, especially in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620673
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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824463