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Collective Wage Agreements and Adjustments in German Services Firms

Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2003

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … factors when firms from the service sector are faced with demand shocks. The estimation results indicate that collective wage …

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Diffusion of Information Technology, Internet Use and the Demand for Heterogeneous Labor

Falk, Martin - 2012

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

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Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002

Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This monograph offers a comprehensive theory-based econometric treatment of three important and severely understudied issues related to services:...

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Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups : An Analysis for West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1999

This book explores empirically for West Germany whether a decline in the relative demand for less skilled workers … and structural estimation is provided, and there are various findings in the book which require a modification of the … conventional wisdom about labor market trends in West Germany. Overall wage dispersion has been increasing and wage growth has been …

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Flexible use of the large-scale short-time work scheme in Germany during the pandemic : dynamic labour demand models estimation with high-frequency establishment data

Bellmann, Lisa; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 7, pp. 1-17

Our study uses 24 waves of the survey Establishments in the COVID-19 crisis (BeCOVID), a high-frequency dataset collected at monthly intervals by the Institute for Employment Research during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate the behaviour of establishments with respect to the dynamics of...

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Threshold values in german labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Bremst das Schwerbehindertengesetz die Arbeitsplatzdynamik in Kleinbetrieben?

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2001

Das Schwerbehindertengesetz verpflichtete in seiner bis 30.9.2000 gültigen Fassung alle Arbeitgeber ab 16 Beschäftigten, sechs Prozent der Arbeitsplätze mit Schwerbehinderten zu besetzen, ansonsten war für jeden nicht entsprechend besetzten Arbeitsplatz eine Ausgleichsabgabe von monatlich...

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Handel, Technologie und Beschäftigung

Heitger, Bernhard; Schrader, Klaus; Stehn, Jürgen - 1999

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