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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidising market-contracted household work

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Brück, Tilman - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2008

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...

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Exports and labour demand: searching for functional structure in multi-output multi-skill technologies

Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2005

In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...

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Rente mit 63 aus betrieblicher Sicht: Betroffenheit und Reaktionen

Czepek, Judith; Moczall, Andreas; Weber, Enzo - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 10, pp. 716-718

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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001

schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der … Lohnkosten in Deutschland und an anderen potentiellen Standorten in europäischen Hocheinkommensländern, aber nicht von den …

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Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 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...

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Mündler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 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...

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Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2007

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms,...

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Inside The Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies

Kvasnicka, Michael - 2003

Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...

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Foreign-owned Firms in the German Labour Market

Keller, Dietmar; Jungnickel, Rolf - 2003

Compared to other Western European countries, Germany was less successful in attracting FDI in the 1990s. The falling behind in inward-FDI should be no problem if foreign-owned firms (FoFs) were only substitutes for indigenous firms. However, to the extent they differ significantly in terms of...

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