Die Studie der Coburger Hochschule/IAB arbeitet heraus, dass die Anzahl der Erwerbspersonen aus rein demographischen Gründen bis 2050 um ein Drittel vermindert sein wird. Sie nimmt deshalb zwei Faktoren in den Fokus, die diesem dramatischen Arbeitskräftemangel entgegenwirken können: Eine...

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

During the last several decades developed economies underwent salient employment shifts from manufacturing toward service production. This dissertation investigates the meaning of these changes for the occupational and skill structure of the German economy. It elaborates on the skills and...