"The paper analyzes the possible existence of a wage curve in East Germany for the time period from 1998 to 2002 using panel data from the IAB-Establishment Panel, restricting the study to firms from the industrial sector. The results give room to the conclusion that there is a wage curve in...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Anwerbung qualifizierter und hochqualifizierter Arbeitnehmer aus dem Ausland nach Deutschland. Während ökonomische Theorien vornehmlich den Reallohn als Anreiz für Migration sehen, stellt dieser Beitrag auf weiche Faktoren ab, die für Migrationsentscheidungen...

Germany will have an increasing need of qualified staff across regions and economical sectors. Not only does this concern highly qualified of so-called MINT-professions (mathematics, IT, natural sciences and technology), but expands to qualified laborers of the health business and the arts and...

This paper examines the employment effects of a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate in Germany by running policy simulations in four different types of macroeconomic models. Two models are based on time-series data where the labor market is modeled basically demand...