We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional hierarchical levels are often suspected to restrict innovative activities. However, founders' capacities for information processing and resource allocation are usually strongly...

This paper analyzes individual, structural, and cultural factors that influence the labor-force participation of migrant women in Germany. Considering the well-established evidence that immigrant women work less than natives, with statuses and earnings differing significantly between them, I...

Berufsklassifikationen sind anhand der ausgeübten Tätigkeit gegliedert und entsprechend wird auch in Umfragen zur Erfassung des Berufs nach der "beruflichen Tätigkeit" gefragt. Obwohl sich diese Abfrage auf die Klassifikation bezieht, wird bei der Kodierung von Antworten nur selten auf die...

Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and engage in household, but most of them continue to work full-time after the birth of a child. To better combine work and family, flexible working time arrangements might play a crucial role for fathers. Using data from the German...

In this paper we examine how employment and hiring processes develop in the course of digitalisation in German establishments. To this end we use a large representative business survey - the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - that was extended in 2015 to include special questions about the state of...

North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to the South. I build a growth model with two asymmetric trading economies, the North where firms innovate and the South where Northern firms invest to take advantage of lower...

This paper examines the cross-border labor market in the French-German Upper Rhine Region. Based on shortage analyses conducted for both sides of the border, a fixed effects panel regression estimates the impact of changing labor market situations on the number of French frontier workers....

We use administrative social security records and event history methods to investigate graduate migration in Germany. The results indicate that most migration events happen up to seven years after graduation. Work experience gathered before and during the studies influences the migration...

Berufliche Weiterbildung ist ein Weg, um sich den wandelnden Anforderungen des Arbeitsmarktes anzupassen. Eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an beruflicher Weiterbildung ist erstens, dass Maßnahmen verfügbar sind. Zweitens muss es Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern möglich sein,...