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The impact of skills shortage on economic development in Germany – A mixed method approach
Hertrich, Tobias Johannes; Brenner, Thomas - 2024
In Europe, there is an increasing shortage of skilled workers and jobs remain vacant for long periods of time. The shortage of skilled workers has become a key issue for various stakeholders, as it not only makes it difficult to recruit and retain employees, but it is also seen as a significant...
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A skill-specific dynamic labour supply and labour demand framework : a scenario analysis for the Western Balkan countries to 2030
Leitner, Sandra M. - 2021
This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...
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Jobs with green potential in Switzerland: demand and possible skills shortages
Lobsiger, Michael; Rutzer, Christian - 2021
We use a data-driven methodology to quantify the importance of different skills in performing green tasks. For Switzerland, we estimate the green potential to be 16.7% of the total of employed persons and 18.8% of full-time equivalents in 2017, respectively. Employed persons in jobs with high...
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Green potential of Europe's labour force: relative share and possible skills imbalances
Lobsiger, Michael; Rutzer, Christian - 2021
Using a data-driven methodology that allows to quantify the importance of different skills in performing green tasks, we estimate the green potential for 26 European countries. By green potential we mean the share of employed persons in occupations characterised by skills that are important for...
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Finance, talent allocation, and growth
D'Acunto, Francesco; Frésard, Laurent - 2018
The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...
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Exporting behavior and the demand for skills in German establishments
Kölling, Arnd; Mertens, Antje - 2020
The analysis deals with the influence of exporting on the demand for workers with different skill levels. Previous literature suggests that this includes two major topics. First, productivity of exporting firms may increase due to learning facts after entering international markets and/or be...
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Skill shortages and industry clusters - empirical evidence from German establishment data
König, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - 2022
Regional and sector-specific skill shortages are either foreseeable or a reality in Germany. It is unclear whether … clustering in Germany. The results show, that firms located in an industrial cluster have a significantly lower chance of …
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Skill shortages and industry clusters : empirical evidence from German establishment data
König, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas - 2022
Regional and sector‐specific skill shortages are either foreseeable or a reality in Germany. It is unclear whether … clustering in Germany. The results show, that firms located in an industrial cluster have a significantly lower chance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414415
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Fachkräfteengpässe und Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa: Wanderung als kurzfristiger Ausgleichmechanismus
Demary, Markus; Erdmann, Vera - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 39 (2012) 3, pp. 35-48
Wachstumspotenziale in den kommenden zwei Jahren aufgrund fehlender Fachkräfte unausgeschöpft blieben. In Deutschland lag der Anteil bei … Griechenland nach Deutschland, Schweden oder Österreich können die regionalen Arbeitsmarktungleichgewichte abgebaut werden. So … Erwerbspersonen abzumildern. Daher kommt der Aktivierung der inländischen Fachkräftepotenziale auf lange Sicht auch in Deutschland die …
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Imports in Intermediate Inputs and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Australian Manufacturing Sector
Vu, Huy Quang - 2010
I use Feenstra and Hanson's (2003) outsource-driven framework to investigate the effect of imports in intermediate inputs on the demand for skilled and unskilled labor in Australia. Using a panel data on six two-digit manufacturing industries over the period from 1986/87 to 1994/95, the results...
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