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"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...
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Die Dynamik der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der Arbeitsproduk - tivität in der Schweiz hat in den letzten Jahren immer wieder Anlass zu Diskussionen geboten. Eine Hauptquelle dieser Debatten lag im Fehlen einer langfristig konsistenten Reihe der Arbeitszeitentwicklung in der Schweiz....
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In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir auf der Basis von Unternehmensdaten einerseits die Bestimmungsfaktoren der Innovationsaktivitäten, anderseits den Zusammenhang zwischen Innovationstätigkeit und Arbeitsproduktivität. Die Resultate zeigen, dass die Innovationstätigkeit in der Industrie...
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"To what extent is the gender wage gap of fulltime employees due to differences in productiv-ity- related characteristics, to discrimination of female employees, and how is the wage gap affected by firm specific features? To analyze these problems we use a linked employer-employee database for...
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"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
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Nach dem sogenannten PISA-Schock wird insbesondere in Deutschland intensiv diskutiert, wie die Qualität der schulische Ausbildung verbessert werden kann. Dabei herrscht die Überzeugung vor, dass die Qualität der schulischen Ausbildung eine wichtige Determinante des langfristigen...
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This study was prepared by Stefan Lachenmaier while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in March 2007 and was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is an econometric...
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"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...
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