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The greening of jobs in Germany: First evidence from a text mining based index and employment register data

Janser, Markus - 2018

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...

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Heterogeneous effects of investment grants: Evidence from a new measurement approach

Dettmann, Eva; Weyh, Antje; Titze, Mirko - 2018

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...

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R package hmi: A convenient tool for hierarchical multiple imputation and beyond

Speidel, Matthias; Drechsler, Jörg; Jolani, Shahab - 2018

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...

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It compares the hiring patterns of startups and incum-bents in the period 2003 to 2014 using administrative linked employer-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete...

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Hiring by start-ups and regional labor supply

Bellmann, Lisa; Brixy, Udo - 2018

Young firms find it difficult to attract (skilled) workers. Using linked employer-employee data for Germany we investigate how local labor market conditions affect the hiring success of young firms. In a first step, we estimate the probability of the founder becoming an employer. In a second...

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Patterns of overeducation in Europe: The role of field of study

Boll, Christina; Rossen, Anja; Wolf, Andre - 2018

This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among graduate workers in 21 EU countries and its underlying factors based on the European Labor Force Survey 2016 (EU-LFS). Although controlling for a wide range of covariates, the particular interest lies in the role of fields of study for...

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

Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - 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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Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subse-quent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military ser-vice on lifetime earnings, wages, and...

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Occupational upgrading and the business cycle in West Germany

Büttner, Thomas; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 2/2009 Thomas Büttner Peter Jacobebbinghaus Johannes Ludsteck Occupational Upgrading and the … Thomas Büttner (IAB) Peter Jacobebbinghaus (IAB) Johannes Ludsteck (IAB) Mit der Reihe „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das … “IAB Discussion Paper” is published by the research institute of the German Federal Employment Agency in order to intensify …

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What makes start-ups out of unemployment different?

Schanne, Norbert; Weyh, Antje - 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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