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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jaeckle, Robert; … - CESifo - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094319
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - CESifo - 2014
adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948900
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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545689
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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107065
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Wage Inequality in Germany : Disentangling Demand and Supply Effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
elasticity of substitution production function and the endogenous labor supply of three different skill types, which enable us to … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i ….e., supply effects) on the evolution of the skill premia as defined by the 9th to 1st, the 9th to 5th, and the 5th to 1st decile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316312
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913189
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916528
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014
not only true for the average worker, but also for different skill groups. For the median firm, the elasticity is three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877822
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Labor Demand During the Crisis: What Happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - CESifo - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms’ labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367393
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - CESifo - 2006
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766025