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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence form a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

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...

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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010

employer-employee panel of Germany differentiated by industries for the period 2001-2005, we investigate substitution effects …

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The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on labor demand for different skill groups

Mattes, Anselm - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The...

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Cyclicality of job and worker flows : new data and a new set of stylized facts

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Seth, Stefan; … - 2013

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...

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Cyclicality of job and worker flows : new data and a new set of stylized facts ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Seth, Stefan; … - 2013

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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … the dual apprenticeship system-increase or not. In addition, estimation and data problems are addressed in a topical and …

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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

Liepmann, Hannah - 2016

How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring across industries, I nd that throughout the 1990s,...

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Bremst das Schwerbehindertengesetz die Arbeitsplatzdynamik in Kleinbetrieben? : eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2001

Das Schwerbehindertengesetz verpflichtete in seiner bis 30.9.2000 gültigen Fassung alle Arbeitgeber ab 16 Beschäftigten, sechs Prozent der Arbeitsplätze mit Schwerbehinderten zu besetzen, ansonsten war für jeden nicht entsprechend besetzten Arbeitsplatz eine Ausgleichsabgabe von monatlich...

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