Aus Sicht des Arbeitsangebots (neoklassisches Arbeitsangebotsmodell, Suchmodelle) wird versucht die geringen Beschäftigungsquoten älterer und weiblicher Personen zu erklären. Eine Grundannahme ist dabei, dass Personen nicht beschäftigt sein werden, sofern sich ein Lohnangebot unterhalb ihres...

"This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The data set allows to analyze wage differentials within firms and across the wage...

"This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employment if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the latter depend...

I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The results indicate that the effects differ significantly between works council relationship types in a...

"This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

The authors analyze the importance of relative wage positions within firms in western Germany in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Using a linked employer-employee data set (LIAB) for the years 1996?2005 whose sample consists of full-time male...

This paper uses German linked employer-employee data in order to estimate the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on the probability that firms pay for continuous training. About half of all firms in the estimation sample cover all direct and indirect training costs, which contradicts the...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

In Hamburg wird ein befristetes und auf Langzeitarbeitslose ausgerichtetes Kombilohn-Modell bereits seit 2002 erfolgreich eingesetzt. Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber werden dabei gleichermaßen gefördert; die transparente und einfache Ausgestaltung erhöhen ebenfalls die Akzeptanz des Instruments....