Das ifo Geschäftsklima hat sich im Juli minimal verschlechtert. Die Unternehmer waren zwar etwas zufriedener mit ihrer aktuellen Geschäftslage, nahmen jedoch ihre Erwartungen zurück. Die deutsche Wirtschaft setzt ihre Expansion in verlangsamter Gangart fort. Die deutschen Unternehmen planen,...

Ein zentrales Ergebnis dieser Studie ist, dass die Tarifbindung von Betrieben nicht mit einem Mangel an Betriebszeit- und Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung verbunden ist. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. In Relation zu den nicht tarifgebundenen Betrieben weisen die tarifgebundenen Betriebe in der für die...

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...

Using establishment data covering the time period 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates trends of employer-sponsored further training in Germany, with a focus on the share of establishments that undertake training investments. I find an increasing trend for West and East German establishments...

This paper introduces a statistical technique, Support Vector Machines (SVM), which is considered by the Deutsche Bundesbank as an alternative for company rating. A special attention is paid to the features of the SVM which provide a higher accuracy of company classification into solvent and...

This paper illustrates the effects of item-nonresponse in surveys on the results of multivariate statistical analysis when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a normal/Wishart model is applied. Data of the German IAB...

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...