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Donado, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 3/2009 Alejandro Donado Klaus Wälde Trade Unions Go Global! Articles on scientific dialoge Trade … Louvain-la-Neuve) 1 Mit der Reihe „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut der Bundesagentur für Arbeit den Dialog … noch vor Drucklegung Kritik angeregt und Qualität gesichert werden. The “IAB Discussion Paper” is published by the research …

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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper studies the impact of the local industrial structure on employment dynamics in Western Germany. Following an approach of Combes/Magnac/Robin (2004) for France, local employment growth is decomposed into internal growth resulting from employment changes in existing plants and into...

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Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment...

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Industrial clusters and economic integration : theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg

Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...

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Employer wage subsidies and wages in Germany : some evidence from individual data

Stephan, Gesine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 9/2009 Gesine Stephan Employer wage subsidies and wages in Germany Some evidence from individual … Gesine Stephan (IAB and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Mit der Reihe „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut … Forschungsergebnissen über das Internet soll noch vor Drucklegung Kritik angeregt und Qualität gesichert werden. The “IAB-Discussion Paper …

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Sources for regional unemployment disparities in Germany : lagged adjustment processes, exogenous shocks or both?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The paper analyses movements in the unemployment rate of West German districts in the period 1992-2004 by the chain reaction theory of unemployment (CRT). The estimations show that unemployment movements are generated together by lagged adjustment processes and by exogenous shocks. We find that...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"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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What makes start-ups out of unemployment different?

Schanne, Norbert; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 4/2009 Norbert Schanne Antje Weyh What makes start-ups out of unemployment different? Articles on … Qualität gesichert werden. The “IAB Discussion Paper” is published by the research institute of the German Federal Employ- ment … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 IAB-Discussion Paper 4/2009 3 Abstract ‘What makes start-ups out of unemployment different?’ To answer this question …

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Unemployment dynamics in West Germany : do districts adjust differently than larger regional units?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The results for labour demand shocks at the place of residence for German Federal States and districts according to the model of regional adjustment developed by Blanchard/Katz (1992) are in line with other studies in this field. They suggest that adjustment to region-specific shocks in the...

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The impact of federal social policies on spatial income inequalities in Germany : empirical evidence from social security data

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Schwengler, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 1/2009 Kerstin Bruckmeier Barbara Schwengler The impact of federal social policies on spatial … „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut der Bundesagentur für Arbeit den Dialog mit der externen Wissenschaft … und Qualität gesichert werden. The “IAB-Discussion Paper” is published by the research institute of the German Federal …

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