"The IAB Establishment Panel was launched to obtain information on the demand side of the labor market. This data meets two requirements: providing high quality data for the scientific aims and having an information system for policy makers and practitioners. As it started in 1993 a rich data...

"Various intentions are pursued with the introduction of models of profit-sharing and capital participation for employees. In this paper the effect of employee participation in asset formation as an incentive to increase performance is examined as a way of raising the productivity within an...

"Various intentions are pursued with the introduction of models of profit-sharing and capital participation for employees. In this paper the effect of employee participation in asset formation as an incentive to increase performance is examined as a way of raising the productivity within an...

"Mit der günstigen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung hat auch die Diskussion um den Fachkräftebedarf wieder an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dieser wird in dem Bericht aus betrieblicher Perspektive genauer untersucht. Grundlage dafür bilden die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt bei...

Using data from the Microzensus 2004 we investigate differences in participation rates of different groups of employees - men and women, old and young, native Germans and foreigners in further training. The analysis shows that German and young employees participate more often in further...

Der Beitrag untersucht die unterschiedliche Beteiligung von Männern und Frauen, Älteren und Jüngeren sowie In- und Ausländern an Maßnahmen der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Empirische Untersuchungen auf Basis der Daten des Mikrozensus 2004 zeigen, dass die Teilnahmequote der Deutschen die der...

"The IAB-Establishment Panel indicates that smaller companies differ from larger ones in several ways. Differences in the employee and owner structure are reflected in the fact that smaller establishments offer knowledge-intensive jobs less often than larger establishments do, are generally...

We investigate the effect of profit sharing on establishments’ hirings, layoffs, and quits. Our principal argument is that profit sharing increases wage flexibility and also aligns wages with a changing marginal revenue product. Because employment stability makes their human capital investment...

"Within the framework of the IAB establishment panel more than 4000 establishments have been interviewed annually in western Germany since 1993 and the same number in eastern Germany since 1996. Although the response rate is high - also in comparison with other establishment surveys - the...