In Sachsen könnte bis zum Jahr 2030 für jeden vierten älteren Beschäftigten passend ausgebildeter Nachwuchs fehlen. Dies ergeben Berechnungen des ifo Instituts für das Sächsische Staatsministerium der Finanzen. Demnach dürften Akademikerstellen schwieriger nachzubesetzen sein als Stellen,...

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms - so-called Gazelles - that are...

We study whether older workers are costly to firms. Our estimation equations are derived from a variant of the decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive linked employeremployee data from the Finnish business...