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Fachkräftemangel : inländische Personalreserven als Alternative zur Zuwanderung
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Brigitte - 2018
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...
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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
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Unemployment insurance for the self-employed: a way forward post-corona
Schoukens, Paul; Weber, Enzo - 2020
With the COVID-19 crisis as background, the underlying paper elaborates on setting up an unemployment insurance for self-employed. While a comprehensive approach would have clear advantages, it is crucial to adapt the rules of existing insurances for wage earners appropriately addressing the...
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The role of hybrid entrepreneurship in explaining multiple job holders' earnings structure
Schulz, Matthias; Urbig, Diemo; Procher, Vivien - 2018
Despite the high prevalence of hybrid entrepreneurs among multiple job holders, research on hybrid entrepreneurship and … both research streams by building on hybrid entrepreneurship theories to explain why multiple job holders frequently have … higher hourly earnings in their second job compared to their main job. Consistent with these entrepreneurship theories, our …
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009
mit der Kompetenzdimension verbunden zu sein scheint. -- entrepreneurship ; "Jack-of-all-Trades" ; competence ; desire …
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Regional age structure and young workers' wages
Garloff, Alfred; Roth, Duncan - 2016
This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers. Assuming that differently aged workers are only imperfectly substitutable, economic theory predicts that individuals in larger age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis...
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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...
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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference
Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2016
This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical foreign direct investment (VFDI) refers to the international...
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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?
Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019
This paper analyses a local marketing campaign in Germany that provided information about unproven agerelated stereotypes and the value of older workers. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...
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