Childcare workers are essential for both families and society at large, and their working conditions and pay are often a topic of discussion. Using new data spanning until the end of 2019 from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) as well as a special SOEP additional survey in day care centers, this...

Fachkräfte im Bereich der frühen Bildung und Betreuung sind nicht nur für Familien, sondern für die gesamte Gesellschaft essenziell. Oft wird über die Arbeitsbedingungen und das Gehalt von Erzieherinnen diskutiert. Wie diese selbst ihren Beruf, den Arbeitsalltag und die Entlohnung sehen,...

Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often competing, firms. Researchers now recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Evidence indicates that financial returns to firms vary. Some recoup...

While Greece's poor record on investment and exports predates the crisis, the deep economic recession has made addressing long-standing weaknesses a priority. This paper takes a closer look at selected structural reforms that are critical for bolstering investments and exports in Greece. We...

Die Bekämpfung der chronischen Schwächen Griechenlands bei Investitionen und Ausfuhren ist essenziell für die Überwindung der schweren Wirtschaftskrise. Um hier Erfolge zu erzielen, sind die Strukturreformen in den Bereichen Gewerbezulassungen und Unternehmensgründungen, Wettbewerb,...

Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a positive differential for their services due to the competition from the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). In order to control for performance, we...

The authors investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, the authors analyse 2,012...

Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer spezifischen Beschäftigungsstruktur gewinnt der allgemein attestierte Arbeitskräfteengpass auch für die Pharmaindustrie am Standort Deutschland an Relevanz. Die Unternehmen der Branche sind zwar insgesamt etwas weniger stark von Engpässen betroffen als andere...

The role of the 2000’s German labour market reforms in boosting the German economy has been widely discussed. Considering that one of the main objectives of these reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use high-frequency administrative data to present new details...

We investigate a common-value labor setting in which firms interview a worker prior to hiring. When firms have private information about the worker’s value and interview decisions are kept private, many firms may enter the market, interview, and hire with positive probability. When firms’...