Summary This paper aims at investigating whether or not and to what extent company-level pacts for employment and competitiveness (CLPs) have an impact on the accumulation of human capital. The effect of CLPs on further training is analyzed utilizing the IAB Establishment Panel data of the years...

Summary Even though the 2008/09 economic crisis had only minor employment effects on the German labor market, it might have affected firms’ further training and apprenticeship training behavior. From a theoretical point of view, the impact of the business cycle on firms’ training behaviour...

Summary This paper investigates the development of skill shortages during the period 2007-2012. Using the German Establishment Panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), we find differences across the years before, during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, we analyze the...

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...

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...

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...

This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment panel. We find evidence of a robust positive association between works council presence and plant closures. The...

German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a controversial swing in favor of works council formation and...

Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB) führt seit 1996 jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch (IAB-Betriebspanel Ost). Im Sommer 2003 fand diese Befragung zum achten Mal statt, um aktuelle repräsentative Daten über...

Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB) führt seit 1996 jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch (IAB-Betriebspanel Ost). Im Sommer 2003 fand diese Befragung zum achten Mal statt, um aktuelle repräsentative Daten über...