Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To … firm-level data with establishment-level data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), this database is now linked … with the IAB employment data. As the exact dates of the investments in the Czech Republic are known, the employment …

This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially …, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring …

This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the … years before the crisis, firms with German capital exhibited a noticeably more positive employment development. The results …

In this paper we evaluate the forecasting performance of employment expectations for employment growth in 15 European … outperforms common benchmark models. It is therefore a powerful tool for generating more accurate employment forecasts. We observe … the best results for one quarter ahead predictions that are primarily the aim of the survey question. However, employment …

This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth … variation in local broadband availability. The results suggest that broadband expansion had a positive effect on employment … broadband in the production process that leads to complementary hiring, respectively a slowdown of employment growth, in the …

This study investigates how the effects of low-wage employment and non-employment on wage prospects vary depending on …-paid job are the same when being low-paid or non-employed (whereas their risk of non-employment is lower when having a low …

workers at unaffected plants, we find that acquisitions lead to employment losses for workers initially employed at the … to a reduction in overall employment but a rise in rents per worker that lead to a pattern of losers and winners in the …