This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

Die heutige intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fragenkomplex "technischer Fortschritt" hat verschiedene historische Wurzeln und entstammt verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen. Technischer Fortschritt wird heute von den meisten Ökonomen als ökonomisches Phänomen anerkannt, dem volle...

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...