Seit 1996 führt das IAB jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch, um aktuelle repräsentative Daten über die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und deren Bestimmungsgrößen zu erhalten. Die achte Befragung vom Sommer 2003 erbrachte auswertbare Interviews von 5767 Betrieben....

Seit 1996 führt das IAB jährlich eine Arbeitgeberbefragung in ostdeutschen Betrieben durch, um aktuelle repräsentative Daten über die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und deren Bestimmungsgrößen zu erhalten. Die achte Befragung vom Sommer 2003 erbrachte auswertbare Interviews von 5767 Betrieben....

Using the IAB Establishment Panel, which is representative for western Germany, the authors find that establishment-level wages reacted to variations in the regional unemployment rate. The elasticity of wages with respect to unemployment, they estimate, was about -0.1. This responsiveness of the...

Schumpeterian creative destruction occurs not only at the industry level, but also with each firm trying to maintain or improve its position in the technology race. Based on a rich data set on more than 4,000 German business units, this paper shows that the simultaneous occurrence of hiring and...

"Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Formen der Dezentralisierung wie Gruppenarbeit und Center-Konzepte prägen die Diskussion in der Industrie- und Organisationssoziologie seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre bis heute. Bisher fehlt aber eine detaillierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Einführungsdynamik und den Bedingungen der...

This paper aims at investigating whether or not and to what extent company-level pacts for employment and competitiveness (CLPs) have an impact on the accumulation of human capital. The effect of CLPs on further training is analyzed utilizing the IAB Establishment Panel data of the years 2003 to...

We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although the average level of hiring and separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected,...