Der Beitrag stellt die zentralen Erkenntnisse eines Forschungsvorhabens zur Entwicklung einer prototypischen Fördermaßnahme für vulnerable Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene dar. Zielgruppe der Maßnahme sind junge Menschen, denen der Übergang von der Schule in den Beruf zunächst nicht...

Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established...

The transition towards a greener, less carbon-intensive economy leads to a growing demand for green products, services and business processes. In theory, this trend should lead to a greening of jobs, i.e. to an increasing share of environmentally friendly requirements within occupations...

This paper estimates establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in one of the German Federal States receiving the most support. We analyze general treatment effects, as well as the influence of heterogeneity in the characteristics and economic environment of the establishment on...

Applications of multiple imputation have long outgrown the traditional context of dealing with item nonresponse in cross-sectional datasets. Nowadays multiple imputation is also applied to impute missing values in hierarchical datasets, address confidentiality concerns, combine data from...

Die demografische Alterung führt langfristig zu einem sinkenden Arbeitskräftepotenzial. Zur Deckung der denkbaren Personallücke wird neben Zuwanderung auf die Förderung der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und Älteren gesetzt. Weil aktuelle Prognosen von einem Rückgang der nach Deutschland...

While many studies estimated the effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on the participants' labour market outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms...

Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in "foreign" markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms enjoy productivity gains when they are located close...

This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...

This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The intense involvement of German firms in the economy of the neighboring country via foreign direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether...