A majority of the European Union (EU) states are facing labor and skill shortages in various sectors, along with high rates of unemployment. The sectors are I.T, health, consumer & commercial services, education, construction, engineering, to name a few. The root causes are mismatch between...

Our paper examines the possible role of enterprise surveys in the forecasting of labour market processes. Based on two enterprise surveys with large samples we examine to what extent are enterprises, differing in their size, sales revenues, ownership structure and markets, capable to predict...

This study evaluates the in-sample and out-of-sample RMB exchange rate forecasting with a predictor of CNH-CNY pricing differential. Despite significant evidence of in-sample fit of conditional models at short horizons, we find that RMB exchange rate forecasts based on CNH-CNY spreads do not...

Das in diesem Artikel beschriebene ökonometrische Prognosemodell stellt einen innovativen Ansatz der Nutzung von amtlichen Firmendaten (Mikrodaten) für die Vorhersage von sektoral bzw. regional differenzierten Fachkräftebedarfen dar. Ziel unseres dynamischen Modells ist eine kurzfristig...