Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...

This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled labor and between the manufacturing and service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our...

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

"Using the data of the IAB employment sample, the inter-company labour mobility for the 1979 and 1985 cohorts of new entrants to the labour market was analysed. The matters studied were the distribution of the length of job tenure in the first and second company, as well as survival functions...

"In der Arbeitsmarktforschung und -verwaltung, in der Personalwirtschaftslehre und in den Betrieben besteht ein erhebliches Defizit an einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Informationen über die Nachfrageseite des Arbeitsmarktes. Gegenüber Querschnittsuntersuchungen liefern...

"Mit den Daten des Arbeitsmarktmonitors vom November 1990 und vom März 1991 lassen sich wichtige Determinanten des Nettoeinkommens der Beschäftigten in den neuen Bundesländern bestimmen. Hervorgehoben werden sollen Ergebnisse, die sich auf die Veränderungen des instutitionellen Rahmens in...

"In the 'further training' survey focus of the 1997 IAB establishment panel information was collected concerning the distribution and extent of various forms of company training, the participation of individual groups of workers as well as reasons for a lack of further training. The empirical...