This paper deals with the estimation of employment equations for Germany, which are to be used for forecasting and … studies for West Germany and Germany, respectively. The authors find that the elasticity of employment with respect to output … is robustly estimated and can therefore be restricted to one. The elasticity of employment with respect to the real wage …

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …

Using the example of short-term forecasts for German employment figures, the article at hand examines the question …-ofsample forecasts for the aggregated employment forecast are compared to and contrasted with forecasts based on a vector … employment forecast. Moreover, fluctuation-window tests help identify the phases during which disaggregation increases forecast …