This paper compares the prevalence and determinants of unreported employment in the three Baltic countries in 1998 and 2002 using a hitherto little used data set. The prevalence of unreported employment varies substantially across the three countries and across the two sampling years....

Mit der Einführung von Basel II erhalten ab dem 01. Januar 2007 nahezu alle fremdfinan¬zierten Unterneh¬men im Rahmen einer Ratinga¬nalyse eine individuelle Bewertung ihrer Bo¬nität. Wie die Ratinganalyse haben sich auch die gesetzlichen Vertreter im Rahmen der Lageberichterstattung und...

This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although the average level of hiring and separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected,...

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

In den letzten Jahren ist die Integration von Frauen in den bundesdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt vorangekommen. Gleichwohl gibt es zwischen Männern und Frauen nach wie vor Unterschiede in den Beschäftigungsmustern. Aus diesem Grund werden in dem Forschungsbericht mit Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels 2008...