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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from...

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From deregulation to re-regulation : trend reversal in German labour market institutions and its possible implications

Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"From the mid-1980s until 2005 the German labour market was characterised by continuous deregulation. In the period of an improving German labour market, the German governments have since imposed measures to re-regulate the labour market in order to strengthen employees' rights. At the same time...

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The effect of hiring subsidies on regular wages

Moczall, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"What happens to the wages of regular workers in establishments subsidized with hiring subsidies? Does hiring programme participants result in windfalls that are distributed among regular workers? Do these reduce their wage demands to avoid being substituted by subsidized workers? Using linked...

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Multinational resilience or dispensable jobs? : German FDI and employment in the Czech Republic around the Great Recession

Eisermann, Merlind; Moritz, Michael; Stockinger, Bastian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"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...

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Direct and indirect effects of mass layoffs : evidence from geo-referenced data

Berge, Philipp vom; Schmillen, Achim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Using a novel data set that contains precise geo-referenced information on the universe of German establishments, we analyse both the direct effects of mass layoffs and any indirect impacts on workers who are employed in the vicinity of an establishment being closed down. In line with the...

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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms

Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...

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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity : an empirical assessment for German establishments

Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"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...

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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?

Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"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...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...

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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Bender, Stefan (contributor) - 2004

Qualität gesichert werden. Also with its new series "IAB Discussion Paper" the research institute of the German Federal … Establishments Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Holger Bonin Auch mit seiner neuen Reihe „IAB-Discussion … Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut der Bundesagentur für Arbeit den Dialog mit der externen Wissenschaft intensivieren …

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