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Bobasu, Alina & Amalia Repele (2025): Effects of monetary policy on labor income: the role of the employer. (Working paper series / European Central Bank 3046), Frankfurt am Main, 34 S. DOI:10.2866/0975498

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"This paper investigates the role of firms in the transmission of monetary policy to individual labor market outcomes, both the intensive and extensive margins. Using German matched employer-employee administrative data, we study the effects of monetary policy shocks on individual employment and labor income conditioning on the firm characteristics. First, we find that the employment of workers in young firms are especially sensitive to monetary policy shocks. Second, wages of workers in large firms react relatively more, with some pronounced asymmetries: differences between large and small firms are more evident during monetary policy easing. The differential wage response is driven by above-median workers and cannot be fully explained by a worker component. Notably, larger firms adjust wages more significantly despite experiencing similar changes in investment and turnover compared to smaller firms. Furthermore, monetary policy tightening disproportionately impacts low-skilled and low-wage earners, while easings amplify inequality due to substantial wage increases for top earners. Overall, the effect of monetary policy on inequalities is however larger in easing periods – driven by a large increase in wages for top earners." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Brixy, Udo & Martin Murmann (2025): Hiring opportunities for new firms and the business cycle. In: Small business economics, Jg. 64, H. 3, S. 1387-1413., 2024-06-24. DOI:10.1007/s11187-024-00948-6

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"Whether firms founded during or outside economic crises have greater growth potential is an important question for both prospective entrepreneurs and policy makers. Existing research offers conflicting answers, and mostly either focuses on aggregate cohort-level effects or selectively excludes small new firms from the analyses. Using extensive linked employer-employee data on young German firms around and during the Global Financial Crisis, a period of sharply reduced access to external capital and recession, we show that young firms respond to cyclical conditions in highly heterogeneous ways. Our firm-level results reveal that the average new firm found it easier to hire its first employees when it was founded during the crisis. These firms achieved countercyclical growth by hiring career entrants. More specifically, hiring in very young (<1.5 years) and small to medium-sized (below the 90th percentile) young firms was countercyclical, while this was not the case for older and larger young firms. Thus, the firm-specific effects for young entrepreneurial firms may be very different from those reported in previous research. Our results suggest that market entry during a crisis may facilitate hiring and that policies that promote entrepreneurship may usefully complement policies that encourage labor hoarding by incumbents during recessions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Carlini, Giacomo (2025): Essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics. 147 S.

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"The first chapter investigates why assortative matching between workers and firms is stronger in large cities than in small cities. I develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms to examine how worker composition and labor market frictions affect sorting. Calibrating the model to German employer-employee data, I find that matching efficiency is key to explaining differences in assortative matching across cities. This effect is amplified by a more dispersed worker productivity dispersion. The model shows that around 5% of the GDP gap between large and small cities is attributable to differences in assortative matching, underscoring the role of local labor market frictions and productivity distributions in spatial inequality. The second chapter explores how task-biased technological adoption affects GDP gaps across countries. We introduce a country-specific measure of task intensity and document that as GDP increases, routine work declines while cognitive work rises. Moreover, differences in task content within occupations explain over half of the cross-country differences in routine work. Using a production framework where technology is task-specific and occupations are aggregates of tasks, we estimate task-specific productivities across countries. A counterfactual exercise suggests that reducing dispersion in task-biased technology adoption could shrink the average GDP gap with the United States by 25%. The third chapter examines sectoral labor productivity growth in the U.S. over 50 years, highlighting routine- and skill-biased technical change. I show that routine labor productivity has grown fastest, with skill-biased technical change benefiting skilled workers while unskilled productivity declined, especially in services. Finally, to disentangle the role of different labor-augmenting technological change, I extend the framework to account for heterogeneity in both occupations and skills." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Otto, Michael & Martin Abraham (2025): Robotization and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments. In: Work, Employment and Society, S. 1-27. DOI:10.1177/09500170251351260

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"This article explores the effects of increasing robot adoption on workforce composition, wages and wage inequality in the manufacturing sector. Using longitudinal data from the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB), industrial robot sales data and survey data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we examine the impact of robots on total employment and wage structures at the establishment level from 2008 to 2017. We find that while robotization contributes to overall employment and wage growth, its effects vary across worker groups. High- and middle-skilled workers benefit more from employment and wage increases, whereas low-skilled and routine-intensive workers experience fewer gains. In contrast to skill-biased and task-biased technological change theories (SBTC and TBTC), robots do not significantly increase wage inequality within establishments. Instead, firms mitigate inequality, suggesting that organizational policies play a key role in shaping distributional outcomes. Works councils also influence wage dynamics, benefiting middle-skilled more than low-skilled workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pupato, Germán, Ben Sand & Jeanne Tschopp (2025): Estimating the gains from trade in frictional local labor markets. In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, S. 1-49. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12592

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"We develop a theory and an empirical strategy to estimate the welfare gains from trade in economies with frictional local labor markets. Our welfare formula nests standard market structures and adds an adjustment margin via the employment rate. To identify two key parameters – the trade elasticity and the elasticity of substitution in consumption – we use a theoretically consistent identification strategy that exploits variation in industrial composition across local labor markets. Examining Germany's recent trade integration with China and Eastern Europe, we find that under monopolistic competition with free entry and firm heterogeneity, the welfare gains are 5.5 percent higher than in frictionless settings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Rosenball, Riccarda (2025): The Gender Pay Gap in German Manufacturing: How Exporters Drive Wage Equality Trends. (Graz Economics Papers 2025-08), Graz, 56 S.

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"This study examines the gender pay gap in West Germany's manufacturing sector using linked employer-employee data. The gender pay gap has nearly halved for exporting firms since 1993 - a decline that is much smaller for non-exporting firms. Long-term exporters employ a large share of the workforce and drive trends across the entire sector. Some of the largest exporting industries, such as vehicle manufacturing, show the lowest gender pay gaps. I show that the decline in the gender pay gap of exporters is driven by the increasing representation of women in high-paying positions. Tracking the gender pay gap over the first 10 to 15 years of employees' careers reveals that this decline is largely due to a growing share of highly educated women in the workforce, along with stronger opportunities for career advancement for women. Providing women with early career advancement opportunities is key to breaking the glass ceiling and reducing persistent gender pay disparities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schroeder, Sarah (2025): Exporters, multinationals and residual wage inequality: Evidence and theory. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 173. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.104980

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"A growing empirical literature underscores the pivotal role of ”global firms” in shaping labor market outcomes, including inequality. These are firms that participate in the international economy across multiple dimensions, including both trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). This prompts an important question: Is wage inequality among workers with similar characteristics primarily influenced by firms engaged solely in exporting, those involved solely in FDI, or by multinational enterprises (MNEs) that do both? Using linked employer –employee panel data for Germany, this paper unveils nuanced Patterns in wage premia among various internationalizing establishments, where I identify sorting between workers and establishments as a key driver. I interpret these patterns using a theoretical model that incorporates trade and FDI with monopolistic competition, wherein heterogeneous firms operate within frictional labor markets as they search for workers. My model gives rise to a novel channel for the MNE wage premium, stemming from their ability to transfer their human resource practices to their plant abroad." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))

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Schuss, Eric (2025): The Effects of Expanding Higher Education on Wages and Establishments’ Labor Demand. (Working paper / Swiss Leading House 239), Zürich, 50 S.

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"This study examines the impact of increased access to higher education on labor demand, wages, and labor market structure. I focus on the quasi-experimental increase in the number of universities and universities of applied sciences in Bavaria since the 1970s and establishment of such higher education institutes under the “Future of Bavaria Offensive” program in the 1990s. I use administrative establishment-level data and find a positive but statistically insignificant e↵ect on median wages resulting from expansion of higher education. While there is a negative but insignificant impact on wages of highly skilled workers, those without academic or vocational degree experience an increase in wages. I also find that training activities decline immediately after establishment of a new higher education institution. Further empirical analyses indicate that this decline is driven by changes in educational choices of school graduates rather than by labor demand of establishments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wotschack, Philip & Claire Samtleben (2025): Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 39, H. 2, S. 496-515. DOI:10.1177/09500170241275861

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"How the upward mobility chances of workers in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs are shaped by influences at the organizational and sectoral level remains an open question. This article aims to close this research gap by examining the role of internal labor market characteristics in the promotion prospects and wage increases of workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions. The hypotheses are derived from dual and segmented labor market theory. Regression analyses based on linked-employer-employee-data (LIAB), covering 44,024 workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions from 2005 to 2010, underline the importance of the internal labor market. A considerable share of workers moved to skilled positions through company change. For the workers who stayed with the company, career advancements were associated with regular training investments and formalised regulations at the company level. Collective agreements, in contrast, were associated with lower chances of upward mobility, but higher wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zimmermann, Florian, Tobias Wolbring & Eric Fong (2025): Do works councils and collective agreements narrow Immigrant–native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German-linked employer–employee data. In: Socio-economic review, S. 1-26. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwaf046

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"Recently, workers’ bargaining power has been declining worldwide, and immigrant-native wage inequalities have been widening. In this context, cross-sectional studies show narrower immigrant–native wage gaps in firms with works councils or collective agreements. Yet, it remains unclear whether this correlation is causal. Leveraging German longitudinal linked employer–employee data covering 542 firms and 878,403 employee observations, we investigate whether collective agreements and works councils narrow within-firm immigrant–native wage gaps especially for disadvantaged immigrant groups, that is, immigrants from non-Western countries. Using firm-fixed effects with double-demeaned interaction effects, we find no evidence that works councils narrow immigrant–native wage gaps. However, collective agreements narrow immigrant–native wage gaps for immigrants from non-Western countries by 62.0 per cent but do not affect immigrants from Western countries. Overall, our results indicate that immigrant–native wage inequalities for disadvantaged immigrant groups in Germany would not have widened by 23.6 per cent if collective agreements remained as prevalent as in 1996." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford University Press) ((en))

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Breuer, Matthias, Wei Cai, Anthony Le & Felix Vetter (2024): Minority representation at work. (New working paper series / Chicago Booth, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State 343), Chicago, IL, 78 S., Appendix.

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"Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a powerful form of labor representation that grants elected delegates of shop-floor workers codetermination rights (e.g., over work conditions). Since 2001, a quota ensures that elected delegates include delegates of the minority gender in the workforce. Using detailed survey and administrative data, we find that required minority representation helps the representation of the minority gender on works councils, elevates the effort of works councils, and boosts job satisfaction and well-being of workers, irrespective of their gender. At the establishment level, we find that required minority representation reduces worker turnover and increases investment and productivity. Our findings suggest that laws ensuring labor and minority representation in corporate governance can work (i.e., benefit workers without necessarily hurting employers). The seemingly beneficial impact of the laws suggests that frictions hamper the representation of minorities and cooperation among workers and employers." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Budde, Julian, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger & Simon Trenkle (2024): Worker Representatives. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 32740), Cambridge, Mass, 78 S.

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"We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively selected in terms of pre-election earnings and person fixed effects. They are more likely to have undergone vocational training, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers are close to proportionally represented among works councilors. Drawing on a retirement-IV strategy and event-study designs around council elections, we find that blue-collar representatives reduce involuntary separations, consistent with blue-collar workers placing stronger emphasis on job security." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Budde, Julian, Thomas Dohmen, Simon Jäger & Simon Trenkle (2024): Worker Representatives. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17152), Bonn, 78 S.

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"We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers. Representatives are positively selected in terms of pre-election earnings and person fixed effects. They are more likely to have undergone vocational training, show greater interest in politics, and lean left politically compared to the employees they represent; blue-collar workers are close to proportionally represented among works councilors. Drawing on a retirement-IV strategy and event-study designs around council elections, we find that blue-collar representatives reduce involuntary separations, consistent with blue-collar workers placing stronger emphasis on job security." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Caldwell, Sydnee & Oren Danieli (2024): Outside Options in the Labour Market. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 91, H. 6, S. 3286-3315. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdae006

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"This paper develops a method to estimate workers’ outside employment opportunities. We outline a matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, from which we derive a sufficient statistic, the “outside options index” (OOI), for the effect of outside options on earnings, holding worker productivity constant. The OOI uses the cross-sectional concentration of similar workers across job types to quantify workers’ outside options as a function of workers’ commuting costs, preferences, and skills. Using German micro-data, we find that differences in options explain 20% of the gender earnings gap, and that gender gaps in options are mostly due to differences in the implicit costs of commuting and moving." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Egger, Hartmut, Udo Kreickemeier, Christoph Moser & Jens Wrona (2024): Offshoring and job polarisation between firms. In: Journal of International Economics, Jg. 148. DOI:10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103892

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"Using linked employer–employee data for Germany, we provide evidence for job polarisation between firms and identify offshoring as an important determinant of these employment changes. To accommodate these findings, we set up a model in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarization in the high-wage country due to a reallocation of labor across firms that differ in productivity and pay wages that are positively linked to their profits. Offshoring is chosen only by the most productive firms, and only for those tasks with the lowest variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive margin. Well in line with our evidence, this causes domestic employment shifts from the newly offshoring firms in the middle of the productivity distribution to firms at the tails of this distribution, paying either very low or very high wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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Ehrlich, Gabriel & Joshua Montes (2024): Wage Rigidity and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Data. In: American Economic Journal. Macroeconomics, Jg. 16, H. 1, S. 147-206. DOI:10.1257/mac.20200125

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"This paper examines the relationship between downward nominal wage rigidity and employment outcomes using linked employer-employee data. Wage rigidity prevents 27.1 percent of counterfactual wage cuts, with a standard deviation of 19.2 percent across establishments. An establishment with the sample-average level of wage rigidity is predicted to have a 3.3 percentage point higher layoff rate, a 7.4 percentage point lower quit rate, and a 2.0 percentage point lower hire rate. Estimating a structural model by indirect inference implies that the cost of a nominal wage cut is 33 percent of an average worker’s annual compensation. (JEL E24, J23, J31, J63, M51)" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Holzner, Christian & Makoto Watanabe (2024): New Empirical Findings about the Interaction between Public Employment Agency and Private Search Effort. (CESifo working paper), München, 46 S.

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"The Public Employment Agency (PEA) helps unemployed to find work and mediates PEAregistered job vacancies to job seekers via vacancy referrals. Using the spatial and temporal variation resulting from the regional roll-out of the Hartz 3 reform we are able to show that Hartz 3, which changed the counseling process of unemployed, decreased the fraction of unemployed that received vacancy referrals, increased the job-finding probability of unemployed without vacancy referrals, left the job-finding probability of unemployed with vacancy referrals unaffected, and increased average wages of newly hired, previously unemployed. Since the existing literature is not able to explain this set of findings, we develop a simple theoretical directed search model, which does. It does so by considering the interaction between the private market and the intermediation provided by the PEA." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin & Anna Gerlach (2024): Off to a slow start: which workplace policies can limit gender pay gaps across firm tenure? In: Socio-economic review, Jg. 22, H. 2, S. 677-700. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad055

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"Much of the gender pay gap is generated within workplaces, making it paramount to understand which workplace policies effectively address gaps. Our article asks when policies limit gender pay gaps across employee tenure to identify potential temporal weak points. We analyze a representative panel of 10,000 establishments with over 850,000 employees using the 2005–19 waves of German-linked employer–employee data (LIAB). Two key findings emerge. First, a temporal perspective on workplace policies reveals that no policy under study—formalization, identity-based career programs, and childcare assistance—reduces gender pay gaps at hire. Instead, policies only address additional disparities that accumulate after hire. Second, only identity-based career programs narrow gender disparities for all women. In contrast, seemingly gender-neutral formalization is insufficient, while providing employer-sponsored child care has mixed effects depending on employees’ education. We conclude by discussing the implicationsof these findings for organizational policy and future research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin, Anna Gerlach & Markus Gangl (2024): Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context. In: Social science research, Jg. 120. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103003

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"Research around the “glass escalator” demonstrates that men receive promotions faster than womenin women-dominated occupations. However, it remains unclear how overall establishment composition affects the glass escalator. We use German longitudinal linked employer-employee data (LIAB) between 2012 and 2019 to examine how occupational and establishment gender composition shape gender differences in promotions to management. Establishment gender composition moderates the glass escalator, meaning women's mobility disadvantages in women-dominated jobs are most pronounced in men-dominated establishments. We hypothesize that changing occupational status is a central mechanism: When occupations mirror the composition of the establishment, their status increases locally. Higher occupational status offsets lower leadership expectations attributed to women and increases women's promotion odds relative to their male colleagues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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Lipowski, Cäcilia (2024): No Teens, No Tech: How Shortages of Young Workers Hinder Firm Technology Investments. (ZEW discussion paper 24-062), Mannheim, 71 S.

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"Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I show that a reduction in trainee supply decreases firm technology investments. This suggests complementarity between young workers and new technologies. Consistent with firms’ lower opportunity costs and higher returns to training young workers than incumbents, the effect is driven by firms exposed to new tech skills. These findings dampen hopes of counteracting labor shortages by substituting labor with capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lukesch, Veronika & Thomas Zwick (2024): Do outside options drive wage inequalities in retained jobs? Evidence from a natural experiment. In: BJIR, Jg. 62, H. 1, S. 127-153. DOI:10.1111/bjir.12771

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"We provide evidence that suggests that a reduction in outside wage options reduces wage increases in retained jobs. We use the natural experiment of a reform that reduced outside wage options for employees in deregulated crafts occupations in comparison to employees in not reformed crafts occupations. To avoid estimation biases from general reform effects on wages, we concentrate on employees active in crafts occupations who worked for employers in the industry and commerce sectors and exclude employees in the crafts sector. Four years after the reform, the wages of treated employees in deregulated crafts were 5 per cent lower than wages of employees in not reformed occupations (control group). The reform, therefore, led to wage differentiation between comparable employees. The wage effects are concentrated in employers with high general wage increases after the reform and they can be found even at individual employers." (Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Mouton, Andre (2024): What Drives Wage Sorting? Evidence From West Germany. (Working Papers / Wake Forest University, Economics Department 112), 47 S.

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"An important source of income inequality is wage sorting: high-earning individuals tend to work for employers that pay higher wages, conditional on worker characteristics. This paper combines German survey and administrative data to explore the causal mechanisms behind this poorly-understood phenomenon. I show three main results. First, wage sorting is entirely across industries and occupations, with evidence rejecting an assortative matching mechanism. Second, wage sorting has strengthened over 1993-2017 due to rising skill premia in high-paying sectors, and rising employment in low-skill, low-paying industries - outcomes consistent with demand-side shifts. Third, wage sorting reflects a positive association between human capital and firm investment, which I rationalize through a simple rent-sharing model. Hypothesis tests support a technological mechanism, in which knowledge-intensive production processes engender higher upfront costs - and therefore rents - on either side of the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Christoph (2024): Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 40, H. 3, S. 450-463., 2023-07-17. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcad051

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"Technological change increases the demand for higher skills and fosters wage inequality. Studies on technological change often emphasize the importance of training to adapt workers’ skills to technology use and mitigate inequality. However, we know little about firms’ training activities and their consequences for inequality in the context of technological change. This article investigates, first, whether firms’ decisions to invest in information technology (IT) are associated with skill bias in firms’ training activities, whether this is conditional on the job tasks of workers, and, whether the relationship between IT investments and training activities affects the wage gap within firms. Using linked employer–employee data containing detailed information about investments and training, I show that firms’ IT investments have a large positive effect on the training participation of high-skilled workers. In contrast, the positive effect on low-skilled workers is smaller, short lasting and conditional on workers job tasks. Additional investigations show that the training of high-skilled workers mediates approximately 5 per cent of the effect of IT investments on wage inequality within firms. In the conclusions, I highlight the broader implications of these findings for the effects of technological change for inequality in training opportunities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford University Press) ((en))

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Oh, Ryungha (2024): Essays on Spatial Sorting and Labor Markets. New Haven, 188 S.

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"The dissertation consists of two independent essays that examine how worker and firm sorting across local labor markets shape both regional and aggregate economic outcomes and what are the policy implications. The first chapter of this dissertation studies why productive workers and firms locate together in dense cities. I develop a new theory of two-sided sorting in which both heterogeneous workers and firms sort across space. The location choices of workers and firms affect each other and endogenously generate spatial disparities in the presence of three essential forces: complementarity between worker and firm productivity, random matching within frictional local labor markets, and congestion costs. I demonstrate that the decentralized equilibrium exhibits excessive concentration of workers and firms, and dispersing them away from dense locations can mitigate congestion without reducing output. I then provide direct empirical evidence of the two-sided sorting mechanism using German administrative microdata. An exogenous increase in the quality of the workforce in a location results in more productive firms choosing that location. Finally, to quantify the implications of the model, I calibrate it to U.S. regional data and show that policies that relocate workers and firms toward less dense areas can increase welfare. The second chapter investigates the importance of spatial firm sorting for wage inequality both between and within local labor markets. We develop a novel model in which heterogeneous firms first choose a location and then hire workers in a frictional labor market. Firms’ location choices are guided by a fundamental trade-off: Operating in productive locations increases output per worker, but sharing a labor market with other productive firms makes it hard to poach and retain workers, and hence limits firm size. Positive sorting - with productive firms settling in productive Locations - emerges as the unique equilibrium if firm and location productivity are sufficient complements or labor market frictions are sufficiently large. Positive sorting steepens the job ladder in productive locations and, as a consequence, increases both their average wages and wage dispersion. We estimate our model using administrative data from Germany and identify firm sorting from a novel fact: Labor shares are lower in productive locations, which indicates a higher concentration of top firms with strong monopsony power. Positive firm sorting can account for at least 15% of the spatial variation in average wages and for 40% of the spatial variation in within-location wage dispersion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Sondergeld, Virginia & Katharina Wrohlich (2024): Gender Pay Gap in einem Betrieb sinkt mit mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen. In: DIW-Wochenbericht, Jg. 91, H. 3, S. 38-43. DOI:10.18723/diw_wb:2024-3-3

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"Frauen sind in hohen Führungspositionen privatwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen in Deutschland nach wie vor unterrepräsentiert. In den vergangenen Jahren hat die Politik mehrfach Maßnahmen ergriffen, um den Frauenanteil in Führungspositionen zu erhöhen. Hat ein Betrieb mehr Frauen im Management, kann das positive Wirkungen auf alle Frauen in diesem Betrieb entfalten. Wie die empirischen Analysen in diesem Bericht auf Basis von Linked-Employer-Employee-Daten des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) zeigen, senkt ein höherer Frauenanteil auf der ersten und zweiten Führungsebene den betriebsspezifischen Gender Pay Gap. Statistisch signifikante Effekte durch den Frauenanteil auf der obersten Führungsebene sind allerdings erst ab einem Drittel zu beobachten – derzeit liegt der Frauenanteil dort im Durchschnitt noch deutlich niedriger. Die Unternehmen sollten also ihre Bemühungen, mehr Frauen in hohe Führungspositionen zu befördern, fortsetzen. Dies könnte die ökonomische Ungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern auf allen Hierarchieebenen eines Betriebs vermindern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Wanger, Susanne (2024): Support on the way to the top? The effects of family-friendly flexible working arrangements in organisations on the promotion of women to management positions - the case of Germany. In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 35, H. 15, S. 2475-2513., 2024-04-17. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2024.2347637

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"Frauen sind in Führungspositionen noch immer deutlich unterrepräsentiert, auch wenn sie ihren Anteil in den letzten Jahren leicht steigern konnten. Mithilfe signaltheoretischer Argumente untersucht diese Studie, ob familienfreundliche flexible Arbeitsvereinbarungen (FFWAs) in Organisationen dazu beitragen, die interne Beförderung von Frauen in Führungs- oder Führungspositionen zu steigern und so die bestehende geschlechtsspezifische Führungslücke zu verringern. Dieser Effekt wird anhand von Längsschnittdaten für deutsche Arbeitsplätze und Arbeitnehmer untersucht, die 1.631 Unternehmen und 314.201 Arbeitnehmer abdecken, sowie anhand logistischer Regressionsmodelle mit festen Effekten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Einführung von FFWAs die Chancen auf interne Beförderungen in Aufsichts- oder Führungspositionen für Mitarbeiter verbessert, wobei Frauen und Männer gleichermaßen profitieren. Wenn ich jedoch eine breitere Definition verwende, die auch hochqualifizierte Fachkräfte umfasst, kann die Einführung von FFWAs bessere Aufstiegschancen für Frauen bieten. Zweitens erhöhen FFWAs die Wahrscheinlichkeit, in Führungspositionen mit reduzierter Arbeitszeit befördert zu werden, und dieser Effekt ist bei Männern etwas stärker. Drittens wurden überraschenderweise keine signifikanten positiven Auswirkungen von FFWAs auf die Beförderung von Müttern in Führungspositionen festgestellt. Diese Ergebnisse zeigen, dass es für Frauen trotz organisatorischer Unterstützung weiterhin schwierig ist, Führungspositionen zu erreichen und gleichzeitig Familie und Beruf zu vereinbaren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Zimmermann, Florian (2024): Narrowing inequalities through redistribution. A relational inequality approach to female managers and the gender wage gap. In: European Societies, Jg. 26, H. 4, S. 1071-1093., 2023-11-28. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2023.2289651

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"Recent research shows that firms and jobs are more important for understanding gender wage inequalities than individual-level and occupational-level attributes. I investigate how two mechanisms derived from relational inequality theory, opportunity hoarding and exploitation, affect within-firm gender wage gaps. First, men might exclude women from high-paying firms or jobs (i.e. opportunity hoarding), resulting in gender wage inequalities. Second, male managers might use their relational power to redistribute wages from females to males (exploitation). Increasing the number of female managers might stop this exploitation. While previous literature focused on the effect of female managers on the gender wage gap, I contribute to the literature by also considering the impact of female managers on males’ wages theoretically and empirically. Using German linked employer-employee data and fixed-effect regressions at the firm and job levels, I find evidence for opportunity hoarding at both the firm and the job levels. For the exploitation mechanism, female managers increase females’ wages and lower males’ wages, suggesting the existence of the exploitation mechanism. Further analyses show that the increases in females’ wages are proportional to the decreases in males’ wages. Thus, I find evidence for female managers redistributing males’ wages to females." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Taylor & Francis) ((en))

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Brall, Franziska & Ramona Schmid (2023): Automation, Robots and Wage Inequality in Germany. A decomposition Analysis. In: Labour, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 33-95. DOI:10.1111/labr.12236

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"We conduct a decomposition analysis based on recentred influence function (RIF) regressions to disentangle the relative importance of automation and robotization for wage inequality in the manufacturing sector in Germany between 1996 and 2017. Our measure of automation threat combines occupation-specific scores of automation risk with sector-specific robot densities. We find that besides changes in the composition of individual characteristics, structural shifts among different automation threat groups are a non-negligible factor associated with wage inequality between 1996 and 2017. Moreover, the increase in wage dispersion among the different automation threat groups has contributed significantly to higher wage inequality in the 1990s and 2000s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))

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Brändle, Tobias & Andreas Koch (2023): Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 103, H. 12, S. 842-849. DOI:10.2478/wd-2023-0230

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"Das Entgelttransparenzgesetz soll dazu beitragen, das Gebot des gleichen Entgelts für Frauen und Männer bei gleicher oder gleichwertiger Arbeit durchzusetzen. Nach der zweiten Evaluation wird deutlich, dass dies mit den vorhandenen Instrumenten des Gesetzes nicht erreicht wird. Ohne größere Änderungen bleibt das Gesetz in großen Teilen ineffektiv – bei gleichzeitig substanziellen bürokratischen Auflagen für Betriebe. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Ergebnisse der zweiten Evaluation und zeigt auf, in welche Richtung Reformen gehen könnten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Collischon, Matthias & Florian Zimmermann (2023): Lohnungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern: In Betrieben mit Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen ist die Verdienstlücke kleiner. (IAB-Kurzbericht 17/2023), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2317

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"Die Ungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern am Arbeitsmarkt ist ein viel beachtetes Thema in der politischen Debatte. In den letzten Jahren richtete sich das Augenmerk der Diskussion verstärkt darauf, welche Rolle Betriebe in diesem Zusammenhang spielen und wie sie zur Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern beitragen können. Die Autoren zeigen in ihrer Studie, dass die Einführung betrieblicher Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Gleichstellung mit einer Verringerung der Verdienstlücke zwischen Frauen und Männern im Betrieb einhergeht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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D'Amuri, Francesco, Salvatore Lattanzio & Benjamin S. Smith (2023): The anatomy of labor cost adjustment to demand shocks. Germany and Italy during the Great Recession. (Temi di discussione / Banca d'Italia 1411), Rom, 55 S.

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"We shed light on the anatomy of labor cost adjustment in German and Italian manufacturing firms with more than 20 employees, leveraging matched employer employee-balance sheet data and an exogenous demand shifter that exploits the collapse in world trade during the Great Recession. Following a 1 per cent exogenous decrease in sales, the average German firm cuts wage growth by 0.19 per cent, twice as much as its Italian counterpart. The employment adjustment is gradual in both countries but more pronounced in Germany, where, however, firms in sectors hardest hit by the world trade collapse had been increasing employment in the run-up to the Great Recession. These results are not driven by differences in the response of hours per worker, in labor supply conditions, or in firms' exposure to the concurrent negative credit shock. Finally, we find that - in both countries - producer prices were reduced to a similar extent in response to the shock." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Guri, Romina (2023): Unlocking exporting: Human Capital, Organizational Innovation, and Digital Technologies. Groningen: University of Groningen, 136 S. DOI:10.33612/diss.819479069

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"Exporting is a familiar and yet complex internationalization strategy used by many firms to tap into foreign markets. While prior research has delved into how firms expand abroad and improve their performance by doing so, certain aspects of firms’ export behavior remain still poorly understood. How do firms learn to improve export performance? How do firms learn by exporting beyond productivity and technological innovations? And how do digital technologies facilitate firms to internationalize early and rapidly? This dissertation seeks to provide answers to these questions by going beyond the traditional boundaries of learning that underpin exporting. Chapter 2 distinguishes between learning to start exporting and learning to improve export performance. By drawing from the strategic human capital literature it conceptualizes how prior work experience of employees encompassing both knowledge and skills but also habits and routines shape hiring firms’ export performance. Chapter 3 brings new insights into the learning-by-exporting effects by introducing mechanisms that explain how exporting allows firms to improve the way they organize their activities and introduce organizational innovation while considering domestic market contingencies. Chapter 4 adopts a business model perspective to explore the role of digital technologies for early and rapid internationalization. By conceptualizing digital technologies in terms of value creation, delivery, and capture, this chapter provides new insights into how their different roles enable firms to follow a rapid internationalization path. Overall this dissertation develops several important theoretical insights into the mechanisms that underpin firms’ export behavior." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hallmann, Carl (2023): Essays in Macroeconomic Aspects of Short-Time Work and Innovation. Evanston, 223 S. DOI:10.21985/n2-db4a-5g83

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"This thesis is comprised of three essays. They focus on the implications of Short-Time Work policies and Innovation for the economy as a whole. In the first chapter, “Short Time Work and the Unemployment Scar,” I investigate the economic effects of short-time work. I assess its welfare effects, who benefits most from it, and whether it is suitable as an automatic stabilizer. For this purpose, I develop a heterogeneous agents model, for which the income process is generated by a job ladder search and matching model. I calibrate the model to match the German labor market around the great recession and estimate key parameters governing the value a worker generates after entering STW using German social security data in combination with a survey on the use of STW. Workers at the peak of their career benefit most strongly, as they stand to lose job and firm specific knowledge, as well as the high wages they negotiated in the past. Chapter two, “Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time,” is joint work with W. Walker Hanlon and Lukas Rosenberger. We ask why Britain attained economic leadership during the Industrial Revolution, and argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th century. We show that the network influenced innovation outcomes and then demonstrate that British inventors worked in more central technologies within the innovation network than inventors from France. Then, drawing on recently-developed theoretical tools, we quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the innovation network, and the location of British inventors within it, can help explain the more rapid technological growth in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Chapter three, “Invention and Technological Leadership during the Industrial Revolution,” is written jointly with Emre Enes Yavuz and Lukas Rosenberger. It provides the first empirical cross-country evidence on inventive activity during the Industrial Revolution. Idiosyncrasies in the French historic patent law allow us to compare invention rates in Britain and France across sectors based on French patent data from 1791 to 1855. Our key result is a robust, positive association of invention rates in Britain and France at the sectoral level. Furthermore, we provide the first quantitative evidence on technological leadership in invention at the sectoral level." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kölling, Arnd (2023): Does skill shortage pay off for nursing staff in Germany? Wage premiums for hiring problems, industrial relations, and profitability. (MPRA paper / University Library of Munich 116205), München, 32 S.

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"This study investigates the impact of hiring problems, industrial relations at the workplace and profitability on compensation and wage premia for nursing staff in Germany. Based on Mincer-type earnings functions and a large linked-employee dataset, regressions with unobserved individual and firm-specific fixed effects are estimated. The econometric analysis shows that firms with staffing problems pay a wage premium of about 4 to 5% for nurses. However, this only holds for firms that do not have a works council and/or are not profitable. Here, the wage premium for staffing is paid at the expense of previous premiums for co-determination at the workplace or rent sharing. These premiums are significantly reduced or eliminated due to better outside options. Overall, the pay increases for nurses in firms with staffing problems. Nevertheless, this does not apply to all skilled workers in Germany." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schmid, Ramona (2023): Migration and wage inequality: a detailed analysis for German metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions. In: Review of regional research, Jg. 43, H. 1, S. 147-201. DOI:10.1007/s10037-023-00180-x

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"Diese Studie präsentiert neue Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Löhnlücke zwischen einheimischen und ausländischen Beschäftigten in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung regionaler Unterschiede zwischen 2000 und 2019. Unter Verwendung von Linked-Employer-Employee-Daten des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung werden unbedingte Quantilsregressionen geschätzt, um den Grad der Integration von ausländischen Beschäftigten im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt auf regionaler Ebene bewerten zu können. Die Ergebnisse der erweiterten Oaxaca-Blinder Zerlegungsmethode erbringen Nachweis über entscheidende Faktoren, die die Lohnlücke entlang der gesamten Verteilung beeinflussen. Ergebnisse werden nicht nur für Westdeutschland als Ganzes präsentiert, sondern es wird zusätzlich zwischen Metropolregionen und ländlichen Regionen unterschieden. Die Unterscheidung zwischen verschiedenen Regionen in Deutschland zeigt, dass im Durchschnitt höhere Lohnlücken in Metropolregionen erkennbar sind mit einem gleichzeitig höheren Anteil an ausländischer Bevölkerung. Zusätzlich ändert sich nicht nur der relative Einfluss bestimmter erklärender Variablen im Laufe der Zeit, sondern auch mögliche Faktoren der Lohnlücke haben unterschiedlichen Auswirkungen an verschiedenen Stellen der Lohnverteilung. Entscheidende Faktoren in diesem Zusammenhang sind der ausgeübte Beruf und die Zugehörigkeit zu einem bestimmten Wirtschaftssektor. Bei der getrennten Beobachtung von Metropolregionen und ländlichen Regionen zeigt sich, dass vor allem Unterschiede in der Bildung zu Lohnlücken in städtischen Regionen führen. Hinsichtlich des Ausmaßes der Lohnlücken zwischen ausländischen und einheimischen Beschäftigten ist in den Jahren nach 2012 eine Trendumkehr zu erkennen, die mit einem Anstieg im Bereich der Medianlöhne verbunden ist." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer)

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Sondergeld, Virginia & Katharina Wrohlich (2023): Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap. (DIW-Diskussionspapiere 2046), Berlin, 31 S.

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"We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-EmployeeData from the years 2004 to 2018. For identification of a causal effect we employ a panel model with establishment fixed effects and industry-specific time dummies. Our results show that a higher share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 percent by 1.2 percentage points, i.e. to roughly 14 percent. The effect is stronger for women in second-level than first-level management, indicating that women managers with closer interactions with their subordinates have a higher impact on the gender pay gap than women on higher management levels. The results are similar for East and West Germany, despite the lower gender pay gap and more gender egalitarian social norms in East Germany. From a policy perspective, we conclude that increasing the number of women in management positions has the potential to reduce the gender pay gap to a limited extent. However, further policy measures will be needed in order to fully close the gender gap in pay." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zimmermann, Florian & Matthias Collischon (2023): Do Organizational Policies Narrow Gender Inequality? Novel Evidence from Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data. In: Sociological Science, Jg. 10, S. 47-81., 2022-10-29. DOI:10.15195/v10.a2

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"Scholars have long proposed that gender inequalities in wages are narrowed by organizational policies to advance gender equality. Using cross-sectional data, scarce previous research has found an association between gender wage inequalities and these organizational policies, but it remains unclear whether this correlation represents a causal effect. We provide first evidence on this topic by using longitudinal linked employer–employee data covering almost 1,500 firms and nearly one million employee observations in Germany. We investigate whether and how organizational policies affect gender gaps using firm fixed-effects regressions. Our results show that organizational policies reduce the gender wage gap by around nine percent overall. Investigating channels, we show that this effect is entirely driven by advancing women already employed at a given firm, whereas we find no effect on firms’ composition and wages of new hires. Furthermore, we show that our findings are not driven by potential sources of bias, such as reverse causality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Boddin, Dominik & Thilo Kroeger (2022): Servitization, Inequality, and Wages. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 77, H. August. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102011

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"This paper studies the effect of servitization, i.e., within-establishment changes in the labor force composition towards higher shares of workers with service occupations, on within-establishment wage inequality. We identify servitization as being a main driver of increasing within-establishment wage inequality. Servitization accounts for roughly 7% of the observed increase in the within-establishment wage inequality in manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2017. Higher servitization of an establishment’s labor force is associated with, on average, a lower wage level for otherwise equal workers across the majority of occupations. The wage decrease is particularly pronounced for workers in low-skilled manufacturing occupations and workers at the lower end of the wage distribution. These heterogeneous wage effects explain the increase in within-establishment wage inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))

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Brütt, Katharina & Huaiping Yuan (2022): Pitfalls of pay transparency: Evidence from the lab and the field. (Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 2022-055/I), Amsterdam u.a., 66 S.

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"Wage transparency regulation is widely considered and adopted as a tool to reduce the gender wage gap. We combine field and laboratory evidence to address how and when wage transparency can be effective and explore the role of belief adjustments as a mechanism. In the field, this paper studies a German wage transparency policy that allows employees to request wage information of comparable employees. Exploiting variation across firm size and time, we first provide causal evidence that this regulation does not affect the gender wage gap. In an online laboratory experiment, we study whether the failure of this policy hinges on two aspects: (1) the endogenous availability of wage information, and (2) the absence of performance information. Our data underline the importance of both factors. In contrast to endogenously acquired wage information, exogenously provided wage information does increase overall wages. So does the provision of performance information. However, none of these types of information reduce the gender wage gap. Wage information even deters women from entering negotiations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Freund, Lukas B. (2022): Superstar Teams: The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities. Revised 22 June 2023. (Cambridge working papers in economics 2276), Cambridge, 108 S. DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4312245

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"This paper proposes a model of the firm as a “team assembly technology,” with the aim of explaining why differences between firms represent a large and growing dimension of wage inequality. In the model, firms assign tasks to workers who vary in overall quality and task-specific skills. Hiring takes place in a frictional labor market. Worker-task specialization not only reinforces the potential gains from team production, but also endogenously generates coworker complementarity: the quality of the least capable team member disproportionately influences joint output. In equilibrium, therefore, employers hire workers of similar quality and those with superstar teams pull away in terms of productivity and pay. The key model mechanisms are validated using rich administrative micro data. A theory-informed measure of coworker complementarity doubles from the mid-1980s to the 2010s, mirroring a shift towards greater task complexity. According to a structural estimation exercise, this rise explains close to 40% of the empirically observed increase in the between-firmshare of wage inequality in Germany. Additionally, the model sheds light on how the interaction between specialization and labor market frictions influences total factor productivity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Frings, Hanna & Rebecca Kamb (2022): The relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium. In: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Jg. 95. DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2022.103786

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"Using administrative data for West Germany, we study the relative importance of portable and non-portable agglomeration effects for the urban wage premium. In doing so, we advance the established strategy of estimating wage-tenure profiles for urban-rural and rural-urban movers by adding worker, firm, and match fixed effects. This allows us to distinguish unambiguously between both types of agglomeration effects. Our results show that portable and non-portable agglomeration effects equally contribute to the urban wage premium. Moreover, portable agglomeration effects are not only observed in the biggest cities. Instead, the speed of human capital accumulation continuously increases with city size." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))

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Hammermann, Andrea, Jörg Schmidt & Oliver Stettes (2022): Fluktuation auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Dynamik von Personalbewegungen und deren Einflussfaktoren. (IW-Analysen 149), Köln, 72 S.

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"Die Arbeitskräftefluktuation in Deutschland ist im Zeitverlauf nahezu konstant, sie sinkt jedoch leicht in wirtschaftlichen Krisenzeiten wie der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise und der Corona-Pandemie. Dies liegt unter anderem daran, dass die Personalabgänge maßgeblich durch arbeitnehmerseitige Kündigungen bestimmt sind, die prozyklisch den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen folgen. Während die volkswirtschaftliche Perspektive die Funktion von Personalbewegungen für eine bessere Ressourcenallokation herausstellt, gilt auf betrieblicher Ebene eine hohe Fluktuation häufig als Ausdruck einer geringen Mitarbeiterbindung. Allerdings zeigen sich nur wenige Betriebe (2016 waren es rund 9 Prozent) auch tatsächlich besorgt über das Ausmaß ihrer Fluktuation in den kommenden Jahren. Vielmehr sind Personalwechsel und Beschäftigungsentwicklung stark durch das betriebliche Umfeld wie den Wettbewerbsdruck und die jeweilige personalpolitische Strategie geprägt. Demgegenüber spielt die Diversität der Belegschaft mit Blick auf das Geschlecht, die Altersverteilung und den kulturellen Hintergrund der Beschäftigten für die Dynamik der Personalbewegungen eher eine untergeordnete Rolle. Angesichts steigender Fachkräfteengpässe in Verbindung mit den strukturellen Veränderungen durch den ökologischen und digitalen Wandel könnte die Fluktuation als volkswirtschaftliche Kennziffer und betriebliche Steuerungsgröße noch weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Körner, Konstantin (2022): Offshoring and Labor Market Outcomes. Evidence from Germany. Berlin, 162 S. DOI:10.18452/23453

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"In der Dissertation werden die Effekte von Offshoring auf dem Arbeitsmarkt eines Hochlohnlandes untersucht. Sie beinhaltet 3 voneinander unabhängige Studien am Beispiel Deutschland. Im 1. Kapitel werden die Lohneffekte von Offshoring untersucht. Dabei wird Arbeit nach der Komplexität seines Aufgabenspektrums unterschieden und Offshoring je nach Lohnniveau des Ziellandes eingeteilt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Offshoring nach Westeuropa zu relativen Lohngewinnen für weniger komplexe Jobs in Deutschland führt, während der Lohn komplexer Jobs negativ beeinflusst wird. Offshoring nach Osteuropa hat entgegengesetzte Lohneffekte. Zudem zeichnet sich ab, dass Offshoring nach Westeuropa mit einer arbeits- und nach Osteuropa mit einer kapitalintensiveren Produktion einhergeht. Das 2. Kapitel untersucht ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (FDI) deutscher multinationale Unternehmen (MNE) in Tschechien. Es wird analysiert wie sich die Beschäftigung verändert, wenn MNE Zugang zu “Niedriglohnarbeit” erhalten. Bei Verwendung des Coarsened Exact Matching und eines Event-Study-Ansatzes ergibt sich, dass das inländische Beschäftigungswachstum von MNE im Vergleich zu nicht-MNE abnimmt. Das betrifft im verarbeitenden Gewerbe vor allem Beschäftigte mit niedrigem oder mittlerem Bildungsabschluss und im Dienstleistungssektor Beschäftigte mit mittlerem oder hohem Bildungsniveau. Das 3. Kapitel basiert auf dem gleichen Daten, um die Auswirkungen von FDI auf die Nachfrage von bestimmten Tätigkeiten zu schätzen. Eine neue Methode schätzt Propensity Scores für FDI-Entscheidungen mithilfe von Lasso-Logit-Regressionen. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass Unternehmen mit viel juristischen oder organisatorischen Aufgaben eher zu FDI neigen. Nach einem Matching-Verfahren, werden in einem Diff-in-Diff-Ansatz die heimischen Nachfrageverschiebungen bestimmter Aufgaben untersucht, nachdem FDI getätigt wurde. MNE erhöhen typische Aktivitäten eines Unternehmenssitz, wie managen, analysieren oder verhandeln. Im verarbeitenden Gewerbe reduzieren sie zudem typische Aufgaben der Produktion wie das Überwachen von Maschinen, Herstellen oder Messen. Im Servicesektor werden hingegen typische Servicetätigkeiten reduziert, wie das Beraten/Informieren, Reparieren sowie medizinische Tätigkeiten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Niessen-Ruenzi, Alexandra & Christoph Schneider (2022): The Gender Pension Gap in Germany – Reasons and Remedies. In: CESifo forum, Jg. 23, H. 2, S. 20-24.

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"In this article, we focus on the gender pension gap for statutory pensions, as statutory pension entitlements cover by far the largest fraction of employees (83%) and retired individuals (81%) in Germany (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales 2016). In addition, they account for most of the income of people over 65 in Germany, while private pensions and the company pension scheme are voluntary benefits and depend highly on an individual’s life situation. In this article, we first quantify the gender pension gap. Then, we discuss two of its major determinants: the “motherhood penalty” and the gender investment gap. We conclude with suggestions on how the gender pension gap can be closed." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Peichl, Andreas & Martin Popp (2022): Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization? (IAB-Discussion Paper 21/2022), Nürnberg, 75 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2221

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"In den letzten Jahrzehnten waren viele Industrieländer durch eine Polarisierung von Arbeitsplätzen gekennzeichnet. Während Verschiebungen der Arbeitsnachfrage, nämlich eine vermehrte Ausübung von Routine-Tätigkeiten sowie die Verlagerung von Arbeitsplätzen ins Ausland, üblicherweise zur Erklärung von Job-Polarisierung herangezogen werden, gibt es nur wenig Evidenz dazu, ob Verschiebungen im Arbeitsangebot entlang der Arbeitsnachfragekurve ebenfalls zu einer Job-Polarisierung geführt haben. In dieser Studie untersuchen wir, inwieweit Verschiebungen des Arbeitsangebots das Phänomen der Job-Polarisierung in Deutschland erklären können. Zu diesem Zweck bestimmen wir unkonditionale Lohnelastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage, indem wir zum ersten Mal in der Literatur ein Gewinnmaximierungsmodell mit verknüpften Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Daten schätzen. Anders als in bisherigen Studien berücksichtigen wir dabei explizit Produktionsschwankungen und stellen fest, dass negative Skaleneffekte eine große Rolle für Änderungen in der Arbeitsnachfrage spielen. Sowohl für eine Aufteilung der Belegschaft nach Qualifikationsniveaus als auch nach Tätigkeiten zeigen unsere Elastizitäten, dass Angebotsverschiebungen aufgrund von Zuwanderung und eines Rückgangs der Tarifdeckung die Beschäftigungsentwicklung in den 1990er Jahren erfolgreich erklären können." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Schmid, Ramona (2022): Migration and Wage Inequality: A Detailed Analysis for German Regions over Time. (Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences 04-2022), Stuttgart, 45 S.

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"This study presents new evidence on immigrant-native wage differentials estimated in consideration of regional differences regarding the presence of Non-German population in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas between 2000 and 2019 in Germany. Using linked employer-employee-data, unconditional quantile regression models are estimated in order to assess the degree of labor market integration of foreign workers. Applying an extended version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, the results provide evidence on driving factors behind wage gaps along the entire wage distribution. There are not only changes in the relative importance of explanatory factors over time, but also possible sources of wage differentials shift between different points of the wage distribution. Differentiating between various areas in Germany, on average, larger wage gaps are revealed in metropolitan areas with at the same time a higher presence of the foreign population. Regarding the size of overall estimated wage gaps, after 2012 a reversal in trend and particular increasing tendencies around median wages are identified." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Wanger, Susanne (2022): Support on the way to the top? The effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects. (IAB-Discussion Paper 13/2022), Nürnberg, 62 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2213

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"Auch wenn Frauen in den letzten Jahren ihren Anteil an Führungspositionen in geringem Maße erhöhen konnten, sind sie in Führungspositionen immer noch deutlich unterrepräsentiert. Organisatorische Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter und der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie werden als eine Möglichkeit angesehen, die Ungleichheiten zwischen Männern und Frauen zu verringern. Allerdings gibt es nur relativ wenige Betriebe, die formalisiert organisatorische Gleichstellungspolitik betreiben. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersuche ich, ob organisatorische Maßnahmen die Karrierechancen von Frauen erhöhen oder die Übernahme von Führungspositionen in Teilzeit fördern können. Dies wird mit einem deutschen Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz (LIAB) von 2012 bis 2016 und logistischen Panelregressionsmodellen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse veranschaulichen, dass vor allem die gezielte Förderung von Frauen deren Aufstiegschancen verbessern. Dies zeigt sich allerdings nicht bei Müttern und deren Chancen auf eine Führungsposition in Teilzeit: diese sind niedriger, wenn Frauenförderung im Unternehmen praktiziert wird. Auch Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit, wie die betriebliche Unterstützung bei der Kinderbetreuung oder von Beschäftigten mit pflegebedürftigen Angehörigen haben einen positiven Effekt auf den Aufstieg in Führungspositionen. Die Wirkung familienfreundlicher Arbeitsbedingungen in einem Betrieb ist heterogen: Während Frauen in Betrieben mit solchen Maßnahmen zwar geringere Aufstiegschancen haben, sind ihre Chancen auf eine Führungsposition mit reduzierter Arbeitszeit höher. Die Mitgliedschaft eines Betriebes in einem familienfreundlichen Unternehmensnetzwerk wirkt sich dagegen negativ auf die Karriere- und Aufstiegschancen von Frauen aus." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Woodcock, Simon (2022): The Determinants of Displaced Workers' Wages: Sorting, Matching, Selection, and the Hartz Reforms. (Discussion papers / Simon Fraser University, Department of Economics 2022,04), Burnaby, 90 S.

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"We present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects of displacement into components due to differences in the way that displaced and non-displaced workers are sorted across higher- and lower-paying employers (a sorting effect), differences in the quality of worker-employer matches they enter into (a matching effect), and differences in their unobservable characteristics (a selection effect). In an extended application, we apply our decomposition to understand how the determinants of displaced workers' wages in Germany changed following the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms. We find that the wages of displaced workers fell substantially after the reforms, and that over 80 percent of the decline was because they found re-employment at lower-paying employers. Sorting into worse matches explains a smaller 5-9 percent of the wage decline experienced by men, and 12-23.5 percent of the female wage decline. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the post-reform decline in displaced workers' wages, and selection played little role." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wotschack, Philip & Claire Samtleben (2022): Vom Helfer zur Fachkraft durch betriebliche Weiterbildung? Berufliche Aufstiege und Lohnveränderungen von an- und ungelernten Beschäftigten in regulierten und unregulierten internen Arbeitsmärkten. In: Soziale Welt, Jg. 73, H. 2, S. 309-352. DOI:10.5771/0038-6073-2022-2-309

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"Ein erheblicher Teil der an- und ungelernten Beschäftigten in Deutschland übt Fachkrafttätigkeiten aus, für die eigentlich ein formaler Berufsabschluss erforderlich ist. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund die Rolle von non-formalen betrieblichen Weiterbildungsaktivitäten für berufliche Aufstiege von An- und Ungelernten im internen Arbeitsmarkt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage nach der Rolle regulierender Strukturen. Ausgehend von der Humankapital- und Filtertheorie sowie dem Labor-Queue-Modell werden Hypothesen zum Einfluss betrieblicher Weiterbildungsaktivitäten auf berufliche Statusveränderungen und Lohnzuwächse von vollzeitbeschäftigten An- und Ungelernten formuliert und mit Linked-Employer-Employee Daten (LIAB) für den Zeitraum von 2005 bis 2010 getestet. Unterschiede der Regulierung des internen Arbeits-marktes werden bezüglich tariflicher Standards, einer formalisierten Personalarbeit oder Interessenvertretungsstrukturen untersucht. Darüber hinaus wird die Rolle von Betriebswechseln berücksichtigt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen einen positiven Zusammenhang von regelmäßigen betrieblichen Weiterbildungsinvestitionen und beruflichen Statusverbesserungen für An- und Ungelernte, die im Untersuchungszeitraum nicht den Betrieb gewechselt haben („Stayer“). Dieser ist stärker in regulierten internen Arbeitsmärkten ausgeprägt und geht dort auch eher mit einer höheren Lohnentwicklung einher. Bei einer hohen Weiterbildungsquote von An- und Ungelernten sinken hingegen die Chancen, zur Fachkraft aufzusteigen. Damit ist der berufliche Aufstieg für An- und Ungelernte in den Betrieben erschwert, die in der Weiterbildung dieser Gruppe besonders aktiv sind. Berufliche Statusverbesserungenlassen sich unter diesen Bedingungen eher im Rahmen von Betriebswechseln(„Mover“) realisieren. Insgesamt verweist die Untersuchung auf die Wichtigkeit regulierender Strukturen des internen Arbeitsmarktes für den beruflichen Aufstieg von An- und Ungelernten im Rahmen betrieblicher Weiterbildung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Nomos)

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Zimmermann, Florian (2022): Managing the Gender Wage Gap - How Female Managers Influence the Gender Wage Gap among Workers. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 38, H. 3, S. 355-370., 2021-09-05. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcab046

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"Previous research shows that female managers narrow the gender wage gap (GWG) among workers but does not disentangle two general underlying mechanisms. First, female managers might use their organizational power to change organizational practices and make organizations more gender-equal. Second, female workers might benefit from interacting with a female manager, e.g. through homophily and mentoring. To disentangle these two mechanisms, I distinguish between female managers at the first management level, which is responsible mainly for organizational practices, and at the second management level, which mainly interacts with workers. Additionally, I consider practices enhancing gender equality, such as work-life balance practices. Using German linked employer– employee panel data and a firm fixed-effects regression, I find that female first-level managers slightly narrow the GWG. This influence is not affected by the consideration of organizational practices. Hence, female first-level managers do not affect workers’ by changing organizational practices. In contrast, female second-level managers considerably narrow the GWG among workers. In summary, female managers substantially reduce the GWG among workers, and this effect works via the manager–worker interaction mechanism. Hence, increasing the share of female second-level managers might close the GWG." (Author's abstract, ) ((en))

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Boddin, Dominik & Thilo Kroeger (2021): Structural change revisited: The rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector. (Discussion paper / Deutsche Bundesbank 2021,38), Frankfurt am Main, 55 S.

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"This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation and hence the tasks of the workers - we show that structural change is far less pronounced than generally perceived. Manufacturing and service employment numbers based on the occupations of workers deviate markedly from the employment numbers based on the industry classification of employers. The decline in manufacturing jobs in Germany is far lower if the measurement of employment is based on the occupation of the worker. About 52% of manufacturing jobs that were lost in manufacturing industries between 1975 and 2017 are offset by new manufacturing jobs in service industries. This also has important implications for empirical applications. By way of example, we reestimate the effect of international trade on manufacturing employment based on the occupation of the worker. Contrary to previously identified negative effects, we cannot identify significant effects of import exposure on employment in manufacturing occupations. Using detailed, comprehensive German social security data, we show at the worker level that the service sector increasingly acts as a valuable alternative employment option for workers with manufacturing occupations. We estimate the causal effects of a switch to the service sector on employment outcomes by following workers over time after mass layoffs. The results reinforce our claim that structural change is less pronounced than perceived, as workers who retain their initial occupation and switch to employment in the service sector experience no significant differences in future employment trajectories compared to workers who manage to stay in the manufacturing sector." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bonfiglioli, Alessandra & Federica De Pace (2021): Export, Female Comparative Advantage and the Gender Wage Gap. (CEPR discussion paper 15801), London, 52 S.

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"This paper studies the effect of firms' export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer-employee data from Germany for the period between 1993 and 2007, we show that an increase in a firm's export widens the wage gap between male and female blue-collar workers, while it reduces it between male and female white collars. In particular, the former effect is stronger for workers in routine manual tasks, while the latter is driven by employees performing interactive tasks. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that serving foreign markets relies more on interpersonal skills, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue-collar) occupations. Our results, identified out of the variation in wages within firm-worker pairs, are robust to controlling for a series of worker and firm characteristics, and a host of firm, sector, time and state fixed effects, and heterogeneous trends." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Andreas Peichl, Martin Popp, Jürgen Wiemers & Timo Wollmershäuser (2021): Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time. A novel method applied to the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. In: Journal of Economic Inequality, Jg. 19, H. 3, S. 459-487., 2021-03-31. DOI:10.1007/s10888-021-09489-4

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"Die hohe Dynamik der COVID-19-Krise stellt die politischen Entscheidungsträger in aller Welt vor die beispiellose Herausforderung, geeignete Maßnahmen zur Einkommensstabilisierung zu ergreifen. Um solche Maßnahmen angemessen auszugestalten, ist es wichtig, ihre Auswirkungen in Echtzeit zu quantifizieren. Die hierfür benötigten Daten sind jedoch in der Regel nur mit erheblichen Zeitverzögerungen verfügbar. In diesem Papier entwickeln wir einen neuen Ansatz, um die Verteilungswirkungen von makroökonomischen Schocks und der daraus folgenden Politikmaßnahmen in Echtzeit zu analysieren. Unser Ansatz kombiniert verschiedene ökonomische Modelle, die auf Unternehmens- und Haushaltsdaten geschätzt werden: ein VAR-Modell für die Produktionserwartungen, ein strukturelles Arbeitsnachfragemodell sowie ein Mikrosimulationsmodell. Wir wenden unsere Methode im Kontext der COVID-19-Pandemie auf Deutschland an. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die COVID-19-Krise sich in einer spürbaren Verringerung des Bruttoarbeitseinkommens über die gesamte Einkommensverteilung hinweg niederschlägt. Das Steuer-Transfer-System und diskretionäre Krisenmaßnahmen fungieren jedoch als Einkommensstabilisatoren und sorgen dafür, dass der Effekt auf die Verteilung der verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen progressiv verläuft: Die unteren beiden Dezilgruppen gewinnen Einkommen, die mittleren Einkommensgruppen sind kaum betroffen und nur die oberen Dezile verlieren Einkommen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Dummert, Sandra (2021): Employment prospects after completing vocational training in Germany from 2008-2014. A comprehensive analysis. In: Journal of vocational education and training, Jg. 73, H. 3, S. 367-391., 2019-11-11. DOI:10.1080/13636820.2020.1715467

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"The transition from vocational education and training to regular employment is an important step in the occupational biography of apprenticeship graduates. In the last decade, the retention rate of apprenticeship completers has remained stable at a high level, and graduates face good job opportunities in Germany. Despite these positive circumstances, not all apprenticeship graduates succeed in the direct transition from vocational training to regular employment and are affected by unemployment. My paper offers deeper insights into training establishment-specific, individual and external regional characteristics that influence the transition process at this crucial point in the employment career. I consider the employment status of apprenticeship graduates by estimating multinomial logit models at three time points after the end of training, namely, one month and one and two years later. Using linked employer-employee data, I find evidence not only that sociodemographic characteristics and training establishment-specific determinants affect the transition at the second threshold but also that regional factors influence the probability of becoming unemployed or remaining with the training establishment after the end of the apprenticeship." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Eckrote-Nordland, Marissa Dae (2021): Three Essays in Labor Economics. Michigan, 86 S. DOI:10.25335/ks2e-de95

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"This dissertation is comprised of three chapters analyzing how establishments react to increases in pensionable age. Chapter 1: Understanding the Impact of Postponed Retirements on the Hiring Decisions of Firms The solvency of public pension systems in countries with pay-as-you-go pension schemes have led many of these countries to adopt changes in the age of eligibility for full-benefits. One such country is Germany who implemented a change in their pensionable age in a major reform enacted in 1992. There have been multiple studies that have looked at the effectiveness of this reform in terms of older workers delaying their retirements. However, less is known about how firms have reacted to these changes and if these changes in policy have caused firms to change their hiring behavior. Using administrative linked employer-employee data I exploit pre-policy variation in worker age distributions to serve as a source of identification for studying how employers reacted in-terms-of hiring behavior. I find that firms that had a higher share of older workers, and thus were impacted more by the change in pensionable age, decreased their hiring. For a one percentage-point increase in the share of workers who are predicted to have retired under the old pension system the share of workers that are new hires decreases by 0.324 percentage points. This is a 2.16% decrease at the mean. When smaller age bins are studied, I find that this negative impact is found for those aged under 25 and those age 25-34. In contrast there is a positive impact on individuals age 45-54, 55-64, and over 65. When looking at contract types there is an over 7% decrease in the hires of trainees and an over 10% increase in the hires of workers on partial retirement contracts. Chapter 2: Effect of Postponed Retirements on Wage Growth of Younger Workers (with Peter Berg, Mary Hamman, Daniela Hochfellner, Matthew M. Piszczek and Christopher Ruhm) This paper uses linked-employer-employee data to examine the effects of postponed retirements on the wage progression of younger workers within establishments. A German pension reform is the source of identification. We find no evidence of slower wage growth. Instead we find faster wage growth, especially among workers aged 41 to 57. We cannot rule out separations as a mechanism, but patterns in estimates by age and tenure are not consistent with layoffs. Instead, we find evidence of less frequent promotions and we interpret the wage findings as consistent with compensating wage differentials for postponed promotions Chapter 3: Pension Reforms and their Implications for Establishment Downsizing (with Peter Berg, Mary Hamman, Daniela Hochfellner, Matthew M. Piszczek and Christopher Ruhm) While the empirical literature on the effects of pension reform on workers is broad, less is known about the impact on employers. Yet reforms that create incentives to postpone retirement may have extensive effects on employer labor demand and labor costs, especially in settings where there are strict legal protections against age discrimination in employment. Although public pension system reforms generally are structured to treat all workers within the same birth cohort similarly, the impact on employers may vary substantially due to differences in the age composition of their employees. Using this variation as a source of identification, we examine whether the differential impact of pension reform leads to differences in the incidence of workforce downsizing, a sign of possible financial distress. To ensure estimates are not biased due to attrition, we also model associations between the impact of pension reform and establishment closures and find no association. Results for downsizing consistently show establishments with a higher share of older workers are more likely to experience downsizing. When we segment workers within establishments by age, the absolute changes in downsizing probabilities are highest for younger workers. Preliminary results indicate works councils may increase the risk of downsizing for older workers and protect employment for young and prime workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Galassi, Gabriela (2021): Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform. (Staff working paper / Bank of Canada 2021,15), Ottawa, 92 S.

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"This paper analyzes how firms respond to changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers and how, through equilibrium effects, such policies also affect non-targeted, high-earning workers. I explore establishment-level outcomes around Germany's 2003 Mini-Job Reform, which entailed a significant expansion of tax benefits for low-earning workers. Firms' responses are decomposed in terms of the scale effects that arise from lower labor costs and the substitution effects that are due to changes in the relative prices of low- and high-earning employment post-reform. Using a differences-in-differences approach, I document that highly exposed establishments—those with a high proportion of low-earning workers pre-reform—expand their number of employees relative to non-exposed establishments–those with a low proportion of such workers. Importantly, this relative expansion is tilted towards high-earning workers, a group that is not the target of the tax benefits. In addition, non-exposed establishments substitute employment towards low-earning workers without expanding at the same pace. My findings are consistent with a model of the labor market that features tax sharing between workers and firms and simultaneous shifts in labor supply and demand after changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers. In this setting I illustrate that the employment growth the policy intended is accompanied by a reallocation of employment and production between highly exposed firms and non-exposed firms, and this may result in an efficiency loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Grübener, Philipp (2021): Essays in Quantitative Macroeconomics: Income, Inequality, Income Risk and Optimal Redistribution. Florenz, 191 S.

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"This thesis contains four independent essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics. They explore the sources of income inequality and income risk and study the optimal design of public redistribution and insurance. The first chapter, joint with Filip Rozsypal, studies the origins of idiosyncratic earnings risk in frictional labor markets, with a particular focus on the role of firms for worker earnings risk. First, using administrative matched employer-employee data from Denmark, we document key properties of the worker earnings growth distribution, the firm revenue growth distribution, and their joint distribution. The worker earnings and firm revenue growth distributions exhibit strong deviations from normality, in particular excess kurtosis, with many workers and firms experiencing very small changes to their earnings/revenues, but a significant minority experiencing very large changes. Large earnings losses are more likely for workers in firms with negative revenue growth, driven both by separations to unemployment and earnings losses on the job. Second, we develop a model framework consistent with the data, with four key features: i) frictional labor markets and on the job search to capture unemployment risk and wage growth through a job ladder, ii) multi-worker firms to capture gross and net worker flows, iii) risk averse workers such that earnings risk matters, and iv) contracting with two-sided limited commitment because earnings of job stayers are changing infrequently in the data. Third, we use the model to explore policies designed to mitigate earnings fluctuations. The second chapter, joint with Annika Bacher and Lukas Nord, studies one particular private insurance margin against individual income risk only available to couples, which is the so called added worker effect. Specifically, we study how this intra-household insurance against individual job loss through increased spousal labor market participation varies over the life cycle. We show in U.S. data that the added worker effect is much stronger for young than for old households. A stochastic life cycle model of two-member households with job search in a frictional labor market is capable of replicating this finding. The model suggests that a lower added worker effect for the old is driven primarily by better insurance through asset holdings. Human capital differences between employed young and old contribute to the difference but are quantitatively less important, while differences in job arrival rates play a limited role. In the third chapter, joint with Axelle Ferriere, Gaston Navarro, and Oliko Vardishvili, we study optimal redistribution, taking into account not just the large income and wealth inequality in the data, but also the distribution of income risk that is key in the first two chapters. The U.S. fiscal system redistributes through a rich set of taxes and transfers, the latter accounting for a large part of the income of the poor. Motivated by this, we study the optimal joint design of transfers and income taxes. Within a simple heterogeneous-household framework, we derive analytical results on the optimal relationship between transfers and tax progressivity. Higher transfers are associated with lower optimal income tax progressivity. Redistribution is achieved with generous transfers while efficiency is preserved via a lower progressivity of income taxes. As such, the optimal tax-and-transfer system features larger progressivity of average than of marginal tax rates. We then quantify the optimal tax-and-transfer system in a rich incomplete-market model with realistic distributions of income, wealth, and income risk. The model features a novel flexible functional form for progressive income taxes and means-tested transfers. Relative to the current U.S. fiscal system, the optimal policy consists of more generous means-tested transfers, which phase-out at a slower rate. These larger transfers are financed with higher tax rates, but the taxes are not more progressive than the current system. The fourth chapter, joint with Axelle Ferriere and Dominik Sachs, also studies optimal redistribution, but instead of considering a stationary environment it analyzes the dynamics of the equity-efficiency trade-off along the growth path. To do so, we incorporate the optimal income taxation problem into a state-of-the-art multi-sector structural change general equilibrium model with non-homothetic preferences. We identify two key opposing forces. First, long-run productivity growth allows households to shift their consumption expenditures away from necessities. This implies a reduction in the dispersion of marginal utilities, and therefore calls for a welfare state that declines along the growth path. Yet, economic growth is also systematically associated with an increase in the skill premium, which raises inequality and the desire to redistribute. We quantitatively analyze these opposing forces for two countries: the U.S. from 1950 to 2010, and China from 1989 to 2009. Optimal redistribution decreases at early stages of development, as the role of non-homotheticities prevails. At later stages of development the rising income inequality dominates and the welfare state should become more generous." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Jarosch, Gregor, Ezra Oberfield & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2021): Learning From Coworkers. In: Econometrica, Jg. 89, H. 2, S. 647-676. DOI:10.3982/ECTA16915

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"We investigate learning at the workplace. To do so, we use German administrative data that contain information on the entire workforce of a sample of establishments. We document that having more‐highly‐paid coworkers is strongly associated with future wage growth, particularly if those workers earn more. Motivated by this fact, we propose a dynamic theory of a competitive labor market where firms produce using teams of heterogeneous workers that learn from each other. We develop a methodology to structurally estimate knowledge flows using the full‐richness of the German employer‐employee matched data. The methodology builds on the observation that a competitive labor market prices coworker learning. Our quantitative approach imposes minimal restrictions on firms' production functions, can be implemented on a very short panel, and allows for potentially rich and flexible coworker learning functions. In line with our reduced‐form results, learning from coworkers is significant, particularly from more knowledgeable coworkers. We show that between 4 and 9% of total worker compensation is in the form of learning and that inequality in total compensation is significantly lower than inequality in wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lochner, Benjamin & Bastian Schulz (2021): Firm productivity, wages, and sorting. (University Aarhus. Economics working paper 2021-04), Aarhus, 58 S.

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"We study the link between firms’ productivity and the wages firms pay. Guided by labor market sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm-level production functions, taking into account that worker ability and firm productivity may interact at the match level. Using German data, we find that high wages are not necessarily a reflection of high firm productivity. Observed worker transitions towards higher wages are sometimes directed downwards on the firm-productivity ladder. Worker sorting into high-productivity firms is thus less pronounced than sorting into high-wage firms. Consequently, an implication of increasing wage sorting could be decreasing allocative efficiency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lukesch, Veronika & Thomas Zwick (2021): Outside Options Drive Wage Inequalities in Continuing Jobs: Evidence From a Natural Experiment. (ZEW discussion paper 21-003), Mannheim, 47 S.

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"The literature on wage bargaining so far mainly argues that unemployment benefits are relevant outside options for employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. We use the natural experiment of a crafts reform that reduces outside wage options for a clearly defined treatment group of employees in deregulated crafts occupations in comparison to employees in crafts occupations that have not been reformed. Five years after the reform, the wages of employees in deregulated crafts increased by five per cent less than wages of employees in the other group. Reform effects are concentrated in employers with high increases in their median wage level after the reform. Wage differences therefore seem to be the result of wage renegotiations initiated by employees, rather than renegotiations initiated by employers. Works councils or collective bargaining, firm size, firm profits or regional unemployment have no impact on wage differentiation after taking wage increases into account. We show for the first time that changes in outside options induce wage differentiation at the employer level even in the tightly regulated German labour market. We use entropy matching on the basis of a large representative administrative linked employer-employee panel data set to guarantee homogeneous treatment and control groups before the reform. We isolate the outside wage option effect from other wage determinants by restricting our sample to employers not affected by the crafts reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Steffen & Georg Neuschäffer (2021): Worker participation in decision-making, worker sorting, and firm performance. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 60, H. 4, S. 436-478. DOI:10.1111/irel.12288

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"Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using linked employer–employee data for Germany and worker fixed effects from a two-way fixed-effects model of wages capturing observed and unobserved worker quality, we find that plants with formal worker participation via works councils indeed employ higher quality workers. We show that worker quality is already higher in plants before council introduction and further increases after the introduction. Importantly, we corroborate previous studies by showing positive productivity and profitability effects even after taking into account worker sorting." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Popp, Martin (2021): Labor Demand in Frictional Markets. Erlangen, 281 S.

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"Die Eigenlohnelastizität der Arbeitsnachfrage beschreibt den Effekt höherer Löhne auf die Nachfrage nach Arbeit und beeinflusst u.a. die Auswirkungen von Angebotsschocks, Mindestlöhnen oder Tarifabschlüssen am Arbeitsmarkt. Theoretische und empirische Studien zeigen, dass eine Erhöhung des Lohnsatzes Betriebe dazu veranlasst, ihre Arbeitsnachfrage zu reduzieren. Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst drei wissenschaftliche Aufsätze, die neue empirische Evidenz zur Eigenlohnelastizität der Arbeitsnachfrage enthalten. Die Analyse bezieht sich auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt und setzt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der Wechselwirkung von Arbeitsnachfrage und Friktionen, d.h. Koordinations- oder Transaktionshemmnissen, die den Marktmechanismus beeinträchtigen, auseinander. Neben der Analyse der Arbeitsnachfrage tragen die geschätzten Modelle und Elastizitäten zum Verständnis des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes bei, nämlich im Hinblick auf Job-Polarisierung, Mindestlöhne und Arbeitskräftemangel." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Spies, Sabrina Monika (2021): Empirische Untersuchung über den Einfluss des technischen Fortschritts auf die Verteilung der Löhne in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung der Tarifbindung. Eine Analyse der Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland zwischen 1996 und 2017. (Sozialökonomische Schriften 56), Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH, 213 S. DOI:10.3726/b18079

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"Die Publikation zeigt, welchen Einfluss der technische Fortschritt auf die Verteilung der Löhne unter Berücksichtigung der Tarifbindung hat. Es findet eine Analyse der Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland statt. Methodisch wird auf Fixed-Effects-Modelle zurückgegriffen. Generell zeigt die empirische Analyse, dass sowohl der technische Fortschritt als auch die Tarifbindung die Verteilung der Löhne beeinflussen. Da der technische Fortschritt die Löhne von Hochqualifizierten erhöht, aber nur einen kleinen Einfluss auf die Lohnhöhe von Mittel- und Geringqualifizierten hat, erhöht dieser die Lohnungleichheit. Im Gegensatz dazu führt der starke positive Effekt der Tarifbindung auf die Lohnhöhe von Mittelqualifizierten dazu, dass sich die Lohnungleichheit reduziert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Adão, Rodrigo, Martin Beraja & Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (2020): Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations. (NBER working paper 26625), Cambridge, Mass., 72 S. DOI:10.3386/w26625

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"Why are some technological transitions particularly unequal and slow to play out? We develop a theory to study transitions after technological innovations driven by worker reallocation within a generation and changes in the skill distribution across generations. The economy’s transitional dynamics have a representation as a q-theory of skill investment. We exploit this in two ways. First, to show that technology-skill specificity and the cost of skill investment determine how unequal and slow transitions are by affecting the two adjustment margins in the theory. Second, to connect these determinants to measurable, short-horizon changes in labor market outcomes within and between generations. We then empirically analyze the adjustment to recent cognitive-biased innovations in developed economies. Strong responses of cognitive-intensive employment for young but not old generations suggest that cognitive-skill specificity is high and that the supply of cognitive skills is more elastic for younger generations. This evidence indicates that cognitive-biased transitions are slow and unequal because they are mainly driven by changes in the skill distribution across generations. Naively extrapolating from observed changes at short horizons leads to too pessimistic views about their welfare and distributional implications." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Brall, Franziska & Ramona Schmid (2020): Automation, Robots and Wage Inequality in Germany. A decomposition Analysis. (Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences 14-2020), Stuttgart, 71 S.

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"We analyze how and through which channels wage inequality is affected by the rise in automation and robotization in the manufacturing sector in Germany from 1996 to 2017. Combining rich linked employer-employee data accounting for a variety of different individual, firm and industry characteristics with data on industrial robots and automation probabilities of occupations, we are able to disentangle different potential causes behind changes in wage inequality in Germany. We apply the recentered influence function (RIF) regression based Oaxaca-Blinder (OB) decomposition on several inequality indices and find evidence that besides personal characteristics like age and education the rise in automation and robotization contributes significantly to wage inequality in Germany. Structural shifts in the workforce composition towards occupations with lower or medium automation threat lead to higher wage inequality, which is observable over the whole considered time period. The effect of automation on the wage structure results in higher inequality in the 1990s and 2000s, while it has a significant decreasing inequality effect for the upper part of the wage distribution in the more recent time period." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Bächmann, Ann-Christin & Corinna Frodermann (2020): Warum Mütter wechseln, wenn sie bleiben könnten? Der Einfluss betrieblicher Merkmale auf Arbeitgeberwechsel von Müttern nach der Geburt des ersten Kindes. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 49, H. 2/3, S. 200-215., 2020-04-28. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2020-0018

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"Die Geburt eines Kindes stellt nach wie vor gerade für den Erwerbsverlauf von Frauen einen kritischen Punkt dar, da sie zumeist mit einer Erwerbsunterbrechung und damit verbunden negativen Karrierekonsequenzen einhergeht. Letztere können jedoch durch eine Fortsetzung des Erwerbsverhältnisses beim bisherigen Arbeitgeber abgemildert werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersuchen wir, welche betrieblichen Merkmale die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Betriebswechsel von Müttern nach familienbedingten Erwerbsunterbrechungen reduzieren. Basierend auf Rational Choice Überlegungen und sozialepidemiologischen Argumenten zur Vermeidung von Stress aufgrund antizipierter Rollenkonflikte leiten wir Hypothesen ab, die wir anhand verknüpfter Betriebs- und Beschäftigtendaten testen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass insbesondere konkrete betriebliche familienfreundliche Maßnahmen, wie Unterstützung bei der Kinderbetreuung, die Wechselwahrscheinlichkeit von Müttern beeinflussen. Betriebliche Strukturmerkmale, wie die Betriebsgröße oder Beschäftigtenstruktur, spielen hingegen eine untergeordnete Rolle." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)

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Bächmann, Ann-Christin, Corinna Frodermann, Daniela Grunow, Marina Hagen & Dana Müller (2020): Family-friendly organizational arrangements - anything but "a fuss" (over nothing)! In: IAB-Forum H. 20-02-2020, o. Sz., 2020-02-17.

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"In Germany, more and more companies are offering measures to improve the reconciliation of family and work. This carries benefits for companies and employees alike, because family-friendly measures help women to return to their previous employer faster and more frequently." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bächmann, Ann-Christin, Corinna Frodermann & Dana Müller (2020): Does the firm make the difference? The influence of organizational family-friendly arrangements on the duration of employment interruptions after childbirth. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 36, H. 5, S. 798-813., 2020-03-06. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcaa016

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"Despite the increase in dual-earner couples in Germany over recent decades, starting a family still often leads to a (re-)traditionalization of the division of labour in partnerships, with considerable gender differences in working hours and family obligations remaining. Consequently, after a child is born especially women face the challenge of reconciling career and family. Against this backdrop, a growing proportion of firms has started to create family-friendly working conditions to relieve the burden on their (female) employees. In the course of doing so, firms have also increasingly invested in organizational family-friendly arrangements in recent years. In this paper, we analyse the effects of these arrangements on employees' behaviour by using German linked employer-employee data. We ask how specific organizational family-friendly measures affect a crucial point in women's careers: the employment interruption after childbirth. Based on time-specific piecewise constant models, our results reveal that organizational family-friendly measures positively influence women's return to the labour market after childbirth and thus result in benefits for both firms and employees. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the measures are determined by the structural context and are not time constant but vary according to the age of the child." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Capuano, Stella, Hartmut Egger, Michael Koch & Hans-Jörg Schmerer (2020): Offshoring and firm overlap: Welfare effects with non-sharp selection into offshoring. In: Review of International Economics, Jg. 28, H. 1, S. 138-167., 2019-08-19. DOI:10.1111/roie.12445

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"Using German establishment data, we provide evidence for selection of larger, more productive producers into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and offshoring and nonoffshoring producers coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. To explain this overlap, we set up a model of offshoring, in which we decouple offshoring status from revenues through heterogeneity in two technology parameters. In an empirical analysis, we employ German establishment data to estimate key parameters of the model and show that disregarding the overlap has large quantitative effects. It lowers the estimated gains from offshoring by almost 50% and, at the same time, exaggerates the role of the extensive margin for explaining the evolution of German offshoring since the 1990s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dolfen, Paul (2020): The Decline of the Labor Share: Markups, Markdowns or Technology? In: Dolfen, Paul (2020): The welfare Effects of macroeconomic trends in markdowns and technology, Stanford, S. 1-75.

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"I jointly quantify the impact of markups, markdowns, and technology on the decline of the German labor share. I find that markdowns have steepened significantly over the last two decades. The estimated markdown trend explains more than half of the observed decline of the German labor share. A downward trend in the production elasticity of labor, consistent with factor substitution away from labor, accounts for the remainder. I find that markups have remained stable over the last two decades. I assess the welfare consequences of the observed markdown trend using a heterogeneous firm general equilibrium model. I find that the growing markdown wedge has been associated with consumption equivalent welfare losses of 2.9%." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Egger, Hartmut, Elke Jahn & Stefan Kornitzky (2020): Reassessing the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium in Germany. In: The World Economy, Jg. 43, H. 2, S. 302-325., 2019-12-02. DOI:10.1111/twec.12910

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"This paper evaluates the effect of foreign takeover on wages of workers in German establishments, using rich linked employer‐employee data from 2003 to 2014. To identify a causal effect of foreign takeover, we combine propensityscore matching with a difference‐in‐difference estimator. We find that a takeover by a foreign investor leads to a wage premium of 4.0 log points in the year after ownership change, which further increases to 6.3 log points three years after acquisition. The wage premium is largest for high‐skilled workers, which is consistent with three theoretical arguments, namely rent appropriation by managers, technology protection, and training on new technology. We also show that the wage premium does not pick up an exporter effect due to a platform investment of the foreign owner, that it takes about four years before it fully develops, that it does not vanish after foreign divestment, and that the wage increase is specific to foreign acquisition instead of ownership change per se." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Egger, Hartmut, Peter Egger, Udo Kreickemeier & Christoph Moser (2020): The exporter wage premium when firms and workers are heterogeneous. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 130. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103599

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"In this paper, we develop a new model of international trade, in which workers featuring higher innate abilities match with firms featuring higher innate productivities. This model allows us to quantify the effect of trade on labor income inequality when workers have heterogeneous abilities within the broad groups of skilled and unskilled workers. Self- selection of the most productive firms into exporting generates an exporter wage premium, and our framework with skilled and unskilled workers allows us to decompose this pre- mium into its skill-specific components. We employ linked employer-employee data from Germany to structurally estimate the parameters of the model. These parameter estimates imply an average exporter wage premium of 6 percent, with exporting firms paying no wage premium at all to their unskilled workers, while the premium for skilled workers is 15 percent. Measured by the Theil index, moving the economy to autarky would reduce wage inequality within the group of skilled workers by 29 percent, and it would reduce overall labor income inequality by 8 percent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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Ellguth, Peter & Susanne Kohaut (2020): Orientierung an einem Branchentarifvertrag und die Rolle des Betriebsrats bei der Entlohnung. In: Industrielle Beziehungen, Jg. 27, H. 4, S. 371-388., 2020-10-01.

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"Seit den 1990er Jahren ist die Reichweite von Branchentarifverträgen in Deutschland rückläufig. Im gleichen Zeitraum wächst die Zahl der Betriebe, die sich an einem Branchentarifvertrag orientieren. In der Diskussion über die Erosion des deutschen Tarifsystems werden die formale Tarifbindung und die Orientierung an einem Tarifvertrag häufig als gleichwertig angesehen und die Anteile dieser Betriebe einfach addiert. Offen ist aber, was die Orientierung an einem Branchentarifvertrag für die betrieblichen Arbeitsbedingungen bedeutet. Wie eine ganze Reihe von Studien belegt, beeinflusst die Existenz eines Betriebsrats das betriebliche Lohnniveau und zwar abhängig davon, ob der Betrieb tarifgebunden ist oder nicht. Wir erweitern den Blick auf Betriebe, die sich an einem Branchentarif orientieren. Für unsere OLS-Lohnschätzungen (ordinary least squares) verwenden wir einen Datensatz, der Betriebs- und Individualinformationen auf Personenebene verknüpft (LIAB). Die verschiedenen institutionellen Settings in ihrer Kombination mit dem Betriebsrat finden mit entsprechenden Interaktionstermen Berücksichtigung. Wie sich zeigt, bleibt das bereinigte Lohnniveau in Orientiererbetrieben deutlich hinter dem in branchentarifgebundenen zurück. Die Orientierung an einem Branchentarif ist somit kein Ersatz für eine formelle Bindung. Existiert in diesen Betrieben ein Betriebsrat, so sind auch dort signifikant höhere Löhne zu beobachten, wobei der Lohnzuschlag aber hinter dem bei Geltung eines Branchentarifvertrags zurückbleibt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Ganesch, Franziska, Matthias Dütsch & Olaf Struck (2020): Arbeitsplatzmobilität zwischen Ost-, Nord- und ­Süddeutschland: Erfolgsfaktoren von Einkommenszuwächsen. In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Jg. 69, H. 6/7, S. 417-444. DOI:10.3790/sfo.69.6-7.417

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"In Deutschland beeinflussen regionale Disparitäten besonders auch zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland individuelle Lebens- und Einkommenschancen. Individuen können versuchen, ihre Arbeitsbedingungen – etwa ihr Einkommen – durch räumliche Mobilität zu verbessern. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Mobilität zwischen Ost-, Nord- und Süddeutschland und damit einhergehende Einkommensveränderungen. Basis ist ein Linked Employer-Employee Datensatz, der um regionale Strukturindikatoren ergänzt wurde. Die Ergebnisse zeigen: Jüngere und Hochqualifizierte wechseln häufiger und realisieren bei Betriebswechseln mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit Einkommenszuwächse. Anreize für Ost-Westmobilität bestehen fort, da bei Wechseln aus Ostdeutschland in Richtung Nord- oder Süddeutschland preisniveaubereinigt die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Einkommenszuwächsen höher ist als bei Wechseln innerhalb Ostdeutschlands. Wechsel nach Ostdeutschland können mit Einkommensverlusten, aber auch Einkommenszuwächsen einhergehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Gregory, Terry & Ulrich Zierahn (2020): When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard. Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply. (IZA discussion paper 13633), Bonn, 55 S.

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"We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the bite was particularly pronounced. There, the minimum wage lowered both returns to skills and skill supply. We propose a theoretical model according to which negative spillovers occur whenever a negative scale effect dominates a positive substitution effect and provide empirical support for our theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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Gregory, Victoria (2020): Firms as Learning Environments: Implications for Earnings Dynamics and Job Search. (Working paper / Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 2020,36), Saint Louis, MO, 79 S. DOI:10.20955/wp.2020.036

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"This paper demonstrates that heterogeneity in firms' promotion of human capital accumulation is an important determinant of life-cycle earnings inequality. I use administrative micro data from Germany to show that different establishments offer systematically different earnings growth rates for their workers. This observation suggests that that the increase in inequality over the life cycle reflects not only inherent worker variation, but also differences in the firms that workers happen to match with over their lifetimes. To quantify this channel, I develop a life-cycle search model with heterogeneous workers and firms. In the model, a worker's earnings can grow through both human capital accumulation and labor market competition channels. Human capital growth depends on both the worker's ability and the firm's learning environment. I find that heterogeneity in firm learning environments account for 40% of the increase in cross-sectional earnings variance over the life cycle, and that this mechanism is especially important for young workers. I then show that differences in labor market histories partially shape the worker-specific income profiles estimated by reduced-form statistical earnings processes. Finally, because young workers do not fully internalize the benefits of matching to high-growth firms, changes to the structure of unemployment insurance policies can incentivize these workers to search for better matches." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kerndler, Martin & Michael Reiter (2020): Wage Rigidities and Old-Age Unemployment. (EconPol policy brief 22), München, 12 S.

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"Wage smoothing is beneficial for firms and workers, but wage rigidities can lead to bilaterally inefficient separations. By comparing the impact of four policy measures regarding their impact on welfare, output and government expenditures, Martin Kerndler (TU Wien) and Michael Reiter (IHS Vienna, NYU Abu Dhabi, EconPol Europe) have identified a reasonable policy mix to counter the negative employment effects of wage rigidities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Larsen, Christa, Julia Börner-Krekel & Philipp Funke (2020): Hessischer Lohnatlas. Aktualisierung 2020 - Bezugsjahr 2018. Wiesbaden, 499 S.

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"Um die Entgeltgleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern gezielt und nachhaltig zu fördern, bedarf es einer hohen Transparenz, so dass passgenau Aktivitäten initiiert werden können. Die Neuauflage des Hessischen Lohnatlas knüpft an die Analysen von Entgeltdaten der Wohnbevölkerung zum Stand 2015 an (erstmals im Jahr 2017 vorgestellt) und zeigt transparent auf, wie sich die Lohnlücken bis zum Jahr 2018 verändert haben. Bei diesen Analysen finden ausschließlich sozialversicherungspflichtige Vollzeitbeschäftigte Berücksichtigung. Die Teilzeitbeschäftigten können in den Analysen nicht einbezogen werden, da keine Informationen zum Stundenumfang ihrer Teilzeitbeschäftigung vorliegen und damit nicht erfasst werden kann, in welchem Maße Entgeltunterschiede auch durch unterschiedliche Stundenzahlen zustande kommen. Zum Erfassen der Bruttomonatsentgelte wird auf öffentliche Daten (vor allem Stichtagsdaten 31.12.) zurückgegriffen, die vom Statistikservice Südwest der Regionaldirektion Hessen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und dem Hessischen Statistischen Landesamt stammen. Bei diesen Daten handelt es sich um sogenannte Populationsdaten. Dies bedeutet, dass alle Einwohner*innen der Kreise und kreisfreien Städte in Hessen, zu denen entsprechende Entgeltdaten vorliegen, in den Analysen einbezogen werden. Die Analysen werden für Hessen sowie für jeden Kreis und jede kreisfreie Stadt durchgeführt. Damit können auf allen Ebenen noch bestehende Entgeltunterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern in der jeweiligen Wohnbevölkerung erfasst werden. Die damit geschaffene Transparenz schafft eine wichtige Grundlage zum Diskurs über Ansätze, die die Förderung der Entgeltgleichheit im Land, aber auch vor Ort in den Regionen begünstigen können. Mit der Neuauflage des Hessischen Lohnatlas wird darüber hinaus erstmals die Entgeltlage von Frauen und Männern in den Betrieben vor Ort, also in den Kreisen und kreisfreien Städten, erfasst. Damit werden Aussagen zur Lage der Entgeltgleichheit in der lokalen Wirtschaft möglich. Mit dem Fokus auf die Betriebe vor Ort, sind auch jene Beschäftigte einbezogen, die täglich in den Kreis oder die kreisfreie Stadt zur Erwerbsarbeit einpendeln. Berücksichtigung findet hier, wie bereits oben ausgeführt, ausschließlich die Entgeltlage der in den Betrieben in sozialversicherungspflichtiger Vollzeit Beschäftigten. Basis der Analysen bilden Daten zu den durchschnittlichen Tagesbruttoentgelten im Jahr 2017 aus verschiedenen Stichproben, die durch das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) zur Verfügung gestellt wurden. Anders als bei den obigen Populationsdaten können die Befunde aus der Analyse der Stichproben nicht einfach verallgemeinert werden. Die Ergebnisse sind als Trends zu interpretieren. Von besonderem Interesse ist bei diesen Analysen, in welchem Maße sich Merkmale wie beispielsweise die Betriebsgröße, die Geschlechterzusammensetzung der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in den Betrieben oder die Branchenzugehörigkeit der Betriebe auf die Entgeltlücken zwischen Frauen und Männern auswirken können. Die mit diesen Analysen erzeugte Transparenz kann insbesondere den Akteuren der Wirtschaft deutlich machen, wo noch Handlungsbedarfe liegen, um die Entgeltgleichheit von Frauen und Männern in den Betrieben des Landes zu verbessern. Im Folgenden erfolgt zunächst die Darstellung aller Befunde auf der Ebene des Landes Hessen. Im Anschluss wird für jeden Kreis und jede kreisfreie Stadt ein Dossier vorgelegt. Damit lassen sich Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den Kreisen und den kreisfreien Städten sowohl hinsichtlich der Entgeltlage der Wohnbevölkerung als auch in Bezug auf die Entgeltlage in den Betrieben vor Ort erfassen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Lukesch, Veronika & Thomas Zwick (2020): Does tertiary vocational education beat academic education? A matching analysis of young men's earnings developments. In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, Jg. 12. DOI:10.1186/s40461-020-00104-w

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"This paper shows that young men who completed an apprenticeship education plus a tertiary vocational education have considerably higher earnings during the first half of their career than those who obtained an academic education in addition to their apprenticeship education. We match employees with a tertiary vocational and an academic education based on their labour market experience and their individual and employer characteristics during their formative apprenticeship training years in which they presumably decided on their further education track. Then we compare the earnings developments in both groups of the matched sample during their tertiary education phase and after its completion for maximally 16 years after apprenticeship completion. We use linked employer-employee data of the IAB (LIAB9310)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lübker, Malte & Aline Zucco (2020): Was ist wichtig? Die Corona-Pandemie als Impuls zur Neubewertung systemrelevanter Sektoren. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 73, H. 6, S. 472-484. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2020-6-472

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"Um den weiteren Ausbruch des Corona-Virus in Deutschland zu verhindern, wurde im März 2020 das soziale und wirtschaftliche Leben erheblich eingeschränkt. Lediglich Beschäftigte in den systemrelevanten Sektoren waren dazu angehalten, ihrer Erwerbstätigkeit weiter nachzugehen, da sie den Erhalt der kritischen In­frastruktur sicherten. In diesem Beitrag gehen die Autoren der Beschäftigung und insbesondere der Entlohnung in diesen Sektoren nach. Sie stützen ihre Analyse auf einen Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz (LIAB) des IAB. Mittels deskriptiver Statistiken und Regressionen zeigen sie zunächst, dass die Beschäftigten in diesen Sektoren sich deutlich von sonst hoch angesehenen Beschäftigtengruppen unterscheiden, denn dort sind vor allem teilzeitbeschäftigte Frauen und Personen mit fachlichen Tätigkeiten beschäftigt. Weiterhin zeigt sich, dass die Entlohnung in diesen Sektoren durchaus heterogen ist: Denn während in einigen systemrelevanten Branchen weit überdurchschnittlich entlohnt wird, liegen die Löhne anderer systemrelevanter Sektoren weiter unter dem Schnitt. Dieses Resultat ist stabil, wenn für Humankapital-Variablen kontrolliert wird. Die angesichts der Krisensituation offenbarte Relevanz dieser Tätigkeiten verdeutlicht die Notwendigkeit einer Neubewertung dieser Sektoren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Mercan, Yusuf & Benjamin Schoefer (2020): Jobs and Matches: Quits, Replacement Hiring, and Vacancy Chains. In: The American economic review. Insights, Jg. 2, H. 1, S. 101-124. DOI:10.1257/aeri.20190023

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"In the canonical DMP model of job openings, all job openings stem from new job creation. Jobs denote worker-firm matches, which are destroyed following worker quits. Yet, employers classify 56 percent of vacancies as quit-driven replacement hiring into old jobs, which evidently outlived their previous matches. Accordingly, aggregate and firm-level hiring tightly track quits. We augment the DMP model with longer-lived jobs arising from sunk job creation costs and replacement hiring. Quits trigger vacancies, which beget vacancies through replacement hiring. This vacancy chain can raise total job openings and net employment. The procyclicality of quits can thereby amplify business cycles." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Steffen & Georg Neuschäffer (2020): Worker participation in decision-making, worker sorting, and firm performance. (IWH-Diskussionspapiere 2020,11), Halle, 39 S.

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"Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using linked-employer-employee data for Germany and worker fixed effects from a two-way fixed effects model of wages capturing observed and unobserved worker quality, we find that establishments with formal worker participation via works councils indeed employ higher-quality workers. We show that worker quality is already higher in plants before council introduction and further increases after the introduction. Importantly, we corroborate previous studies by showing positive productivity and profitability effects even after taking into account worker sorting." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Oberfichtner, Michael, Claus Schnabel & Marina Töpfer (2020): Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 196, 2020-08-28. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109509

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"Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap." (Author's abstract, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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Schroeder, Sarah (2020): Exporters, Multinationals and Residual Wage Inequality: Evidence and Theory. (CESifo working paper 8701), München, 73 S.

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"This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and foreign direct investment. I use German linked employer-employee data to (1) jointly estimate the exporter and the multinational wage premium and (2) to further distinguish between wage premia of multinational firms that are foreign owned (inward FDI) and domestically owned (outward FDI). My findings exhibit a clear hierarchy of firms' international activities with regard to wage premia and workforce ability. I interpret these patterns using a theoretical framework, which incorporates ex-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with monopolistic competition. The model allows me to account for the observed empirical patterns, and delivers novel insights about the interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Woodcock, Simon D. (2020): The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching. (IZA discussion paper 13300), 66 S.

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"We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on unobservables, and to changes in the way that displaced workers are sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse matches with employers explains a smaller 5-9 percent of the wage loss experienced by men, and 12.5-23 percent of the female wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Addison, John T., Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau & Lutz Bellmann (2019): Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability. (IZA discussion paper 12438), Bonn, 29 S.

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"Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little examined in the firm performance literature because of inadequate information on plant closings on the one hand and having to assume homogeneity of what are undoubtedly heterogeneous worker representation agencies on the other. Our use of two datasets serves to identify failed establishments, while the critical issue of heterogeneity is tackled via manager perceptions of works council disaffection or otherwise. The heterogeneity issue is also addressed by considering the wider collective bargaining framework within which works councils are embedded, and also by allowing for works council learning. It is reported that works council dissonance is positively associated with plant closings, although this association is not found for establishments that are covered by sectoral agreements. Taken in conjunction, both findings are consistent with the literature on the mitigation of rent seeking behavior. Less consistent with the recent empirical literature, however, is the association between plant closings and dissonance over time, that is, from the point at which works council dissonance is first observed. Although the coefficient estimate for dissonance is declining with the length of the observation window, it remains stubbornly positive and highly statistically significant. Finally, there is evidence that establishments with dissonant works councils are associated with a much higher probability of transitioning from no collective bargaining to sectoral bargaining coverage over the sample period than their counterparts with more consensual works councils." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Addison, John T., Paulino Teixeira, Philipp Grunau & Lutz Bellmann (2019): Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability. (CESifo working paper 7722), München, 28 S.

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"Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little examined in the firm performance literature because of inadequate information on plant closings on the one hand and having to assume homogeneity of what are undoubtedly heterogeneous worker representation agencies on the other. Our use of two datasets serves to identify failed establishments, while the critical issue of heterogeneity is tackled via manager perceptions of works council disaffection or otherwise. The heterogeneity issue is also addressed by considering the wider collective bargaining framework within which works councils are embedded, and also by allowing for works council learning. It is reported that works council dissonance is positively associated with plant closings, although this association is not found for establishments that are covered by sectoral agreements. Taken in conjunction, both findings are consistent with the literature on the mitigation of rent seeking behavior. Less consistent with the recent empirical literature, however, is the association between plant closings and dissonance over time, that is, from the point at which works council dissonance is first observed. Although the coefficient estimate for dissonance is declining with the length of the observation window, it remains stubbornly positive and highly statistically significant. Finally, there is evidence that establishments with dissonant works councils are associated with a much higher probability of transitioning from no collective bargaining to sectoral bargaining coverage over the sample period than their counterparts with more consensual works councils." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bossler, Mario (2019): The rise in orientation at collective bargaining without a formal contract. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 58, H. 1, S. 17-45., 2018-08-24. DOI:10.1111/irel.12226

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"While firm participation in collective bargaining between unions and employers' associations has been decreasing in Germany over the last two decades, orientation at collectively bargained wages has increased in popularity. Orientation implies that employers claim to set wages according to collective agreements but they are not formally bound by the respective bargaining contract, and in fact, I observe that they pay significantly lower wages than firms that are formally covered. Dynamic nonlinear panel estimation applied to establishment-level data shows that this orientation is a stepping stone into formal participation. However, the decline in formal participation and the opposing rise in orientation are mostly due to a changing establishment composition rather than to behavioral transitions." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Brändle, Tobias & Anne Zühlke (2019): Personalpolitische Maßnahmen in baden-württembergischen Betrieben. Eine empirische Analyse auf der Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels Baden-Württemberg sowie verknüpfter Linked-Employer-Employee Daten. (IAW-Kurzberichte 2019,05), Tübingen, 45 S.

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"Im vorliegenden Bericht wird zunächst für baden‐württembergische Betriebe der allgemeine Stellenwert der Anwendung spezifischer Personalpolitiken dargestellt. Diese Auswertungen erfolgen einerseits repräsentativ für die jeweiligen Wellen des IAB‐Betriebspanels sowie, wenn möglich, im Zeitablauf. Anschließend wird der Einfluss dieser personalpolitischen Maßnahmen auf verschiedene Zielgrößen im Zusammenhang mit der Existenz bzw. der Behebung des Fachkräftemangels untersucht." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Burns, Benjamin (2019): Changes in workplace heterogeneity and how they widen the gender wage gap. In: American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, Jg. 11, H. 2, S. 74-113. DOI:10.1257/app.20160664

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"Using linked employer-employee data for West Germany, I investigate the role of growing wage differentials between firms in the slowdown of gender wage convergence since the 1990s. The results show that two factors are at play: first, high-wage firms experience higher wage growth and employ disproportionately more men, and second, male firm premiums grow faster than female premiums in the same firms. These developments were catalyzed by a decline of union coverage, coupled with more firm-specific wage setting in collective bargaining agreements. Taken together, these conditions prevented the gender gap from narrowing by approximately 15 percent between the 1990s and 2000s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dummert, Sandra, Ute Leber & Barbara Schwengler (2019): Unfilled training positions in Germany. Regional and establishment-specific determinants. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 239, H. 4, S. 661-701., 2018-11-19. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2018-0014

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"The current situation in the German apprenticeship market is characterized by two contradictory developments. On the one hand, establishments are experiencing increasing problems filling the training positions they offer, and the number of vacant training positions is climbing. On the other hand, the transition into training is still difficult for many young people, and the number of unsuccessful vocational training applicants is rising. Hence, matching supply with demand is becoming increasingly difficult in the German job market for training positions. Using the Linked Employer-Employee dataset (LIAB) from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), our paper provides a closer examination of the phenomenon of unfilled training positions. It presents an overview of the evolution of vacant training positions in eastern and western Germany and attempts to explain the number of vacancies by investigating the factors responsible for the establishments' inability to fill their training positions. We assume that training position vacancies are due not only to internal company reasons such as firm size or the wage offer for apprentices but also to external conditions such as general regional factors. Therefore, our analysis also considers the situation on the demand side of the labor market within a region. The results of our multilevel mixed-effects estimations show that in addition to characteristics on the enterprise level, regional determinants also affect the share of vacant apprenticeships. With respect to establishment-related factors, mainly characteristics that describe the attractiveness of the firm prove to be important. With regard to regional-specific factors, we find that the availability of school leavers in a region in addition to the level of regional-sectoral competition impacts the recruiting success of establishments. Our analysis also shows that there are remarkable differences between eastern and western Germany concerning both the quantitative importance of unfilled training positions and the factors affecting them." (Author's abstract, © De Gruyter) ((en))

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Dütsch, Matthias, Franziska Ganesch & Olaf Struck (2019): Employment trajectories in heterogeneous regions. Evidence from Germany. In: Advances in life course research, Jg. 40, H. March, S. 43-84. DOI:10.1016/j.alcr.2019.03.002

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"To what extent do regional characteristics influence employment trajectories? Do regional factors diversely affect the employment careers of different sociodemographic groups? By investigating these questions, we extend current life course research in two ways: First, from a conceptual perspective, we use approaches from regional economics in addition to established sociological labour market theories to gain insights into the effects of regional determinants on individual labour market outcomes. Second, from a methodological point of view, we conduct event history analyses based on a German dataset that contains information on individuals, firms and regions. Our results show that there are considerable regional heterogeneities regarding population density and the amount of human capital endowment, both of which influence working careers differently. Regional agglomeration predominantly offers opportunities in terms of employment trajectories, while regional human capital accumulation increases employment risks. Additionally, our findings indicate that group-specific inequalities with respect to employment careers can be weakened or even strengthened by regional frame conditions. Female and foreign employees benefit most from denser regions and from a higher human capital endowment. By contrast, the unemployment risks of workers who previously experienced unemployment periods during their working lives are increased by both of these regional characteristics. Findings regarding education level are mixed: Workers with occupational qualifications profit from regional agglomeration to a greater extent than do low or even generally qualified workers. However, a high local human capital endowment leads to skill segregation between vocationally trained and highly qualified employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Ehrl, Philipp (2019): On the use of firm fixed effects as a productivity measure for analyzing labor market matching. In: Bulletin of Economic Research, Jg. 71, H. 2, S. 195-208. DOI:10.1111/boer.12173

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"The present note evaluates the performance of firm fixed effects as a productivity measure when identified from wage regressions with two-way fixed effects in matched employer-employee data. This setting is frequently applied to study the matching between workers and firms. Exploiting wage and production data from a large administrative German data set, I find that the correlation between firm fixed effects (FFE) and total factor productivity is close to zero. Once TFP is used, the matching pattern is positive assortative, whereas the two-way fixed effect technique yields the opposite result." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fackler, Daniel, Jens Stegmaier & Eva Weigt (2019): Does extended unemployment benefit duration ameliorate the negative employment effects of job loss? In: Labour economics, Jg. 59, H. August, S. 123-138., 2019-03-18. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2019.03.001

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"We study the effect of job displacement due to bankruptcies on earnings and employment prospects of displaced workers and analyse whether extended potential unemployment benefit duration (PBD) ameliorates the negative consequences of job loss. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data, we find that job loss has long-lasting negative effects on earnings and employment. Displaced workers also more often end up in irregular employment relationships (part-time, marginal part-time employment, and temporary agency work) than their non-displaced counterparts. Applying a regression discontinuity approach that exploits a three months PBD extension at the age threshold of 50 we find hardly any effects of longer PBD on labour market outcomes of displaced workers." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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Ganesch, Franziska, Matthias Dütsch & Olaf Struck (2019): Regionale Mobilität am Arbeitsmarkt. Individuelle, betriebliche und wirtschaftsstrukturelle Determinanten von Mobilität und Einkommen. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 71, H. 2, S. 181-210. DOI:10.1007/s11577-019-00620-y

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"Untersucht wird, welche individuellen, betrieblichen und regionalen wirtschafstrukturellen Merkmale eine erfolgreiche regionale Mobilität von Vollzeiterwerbstätigen unterstützen. Zu Einkommenseffekten im Rahmen von regionaler Mobilität besteht ebenso Forschungsbedarf wie hinsichtlich des Einflusses regionaler Strukturdaten. Analysiert wird ein integrierter Betriebs- und Personendatensatz (LIAB) des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, der um regionale Strukturindikatoren (INKAR) ergänzt wurde. Die Ergebnisse der binären und multinominalen logistischen Regressionsmodelle zeigen unter anderem, dass überregionale Mobilität sowie auch damit einhergehende Einkommenserfolge besonders von Individualmerkmalen, wie dem Alter und der Qualifikation, bestimmt werden. Regionale Wirtschafts- und Strukturindikatoren erweisen sich als etwas weniger bedeutsam bei Entscheidungen für regionale Mobilität und deren Erfolge. Ländliche Regionen oder Regionen mit höherer Arbeitslosigkeit werden letztlich nicht häufiger verlassen. In wirtschaftsstrukturell entwickelten Regionen findet sich gleichwohl überregionale Mobilität. In ihnen zeigt sich wider Erwarten jedoch keine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit von Aufstiegen. In Zielregionen mit einem hohen Anteil an hochqualifizierten Beschäftigten zeigt sich für Akademiker unmittelbar und bereinigt um das regionale Preisniveau eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit von Einkommensverlusten. Offen bleibt, wie sich Zielbetriebskontexte im weiteren Verlauf des Verbleibs im Zielraum auf die Einkommenschancen der verschiedenen Beschäftigtengruppen auswirken." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Ganesch, Franziska, Matthias Dütsch & Olaf Struck (2019): Betriebs- und raumstrukturelle Einflüsse der Beschäftigungsstabilität von Frauen. In: N. Burzan (Hrsg.) (2019): Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen, Göttingen, S. 1-9.

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"Arbeitsmärkte sind nach betrieblicher Beschäftigungsstabilität und unterschiedlich hohen Löhnen segmentiert. Solche Segmentierungen lassen sich als betriebliche Beschäftigungssysteme analysieren. Zudem sind Beschäftigungsverhältnisse vor dem Hintergrund regionaler Gegebenheiten zu betrachten. Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche betriebs- und regionenspezifischen Merkmale die Beschäftigungsstabilität und die Erwerbschancen von Frauen beeinflussen. Die quantitativ-empirischen Analysen auf Basis von Linked-Employer-Employee Daten (LIAB), die um regionalen Strukturindikatoren auf der Ebene von Raumordnungsregionen erweitert wurden, verdeutlichen, dass die Verortung in betrieblichen Beschäftigungssystemen stark von individuellen arbeitsmarktrelevanten Merkmalen, wie dem Geschlecht und dem höchsten Bildungsabschluss, abhängt. So sind weibliche Erwerbsverläufe von einer geringeren Stabilität und einer geringeren Wahrscheinlichkeit für langfristige Beschäftigungen gekennzeichnet. Weder das Kinderbetreuungsangebot im Betrieb, noch die in der Region gemessene Kinderbetreuungsquote stabilisieren betriebliche Beschäftigungen von Frauen. Betriebliche Prosperitätsfaktoren gehen mit Stabilität einher, während unsichere und negative Zukunftserwartungen der Betriebe Beschäftigungen eher destabilisieren. Zudem ist festzustellen, dass Frauen seltener in Arbeitslosigkeit übergehen als Männer und dabei allerdings vergleichsweise häufiger Übergänge in Teilzeitarbeit und geringfügige Beschäftigungen vollziehen, um den Flexibilitätsanforderungen jeweils in und zwischen Beruf und Familie gerecht zu werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Hammermann, Andrea, Matthias Niendorf & Jörg Schmidt (2019): Age diversity and innovation: Do mixed teams of old and experienced and young and restless employees foster companies innovativeness? (IAB-Discussion Paper 04/2019), Nürnberg, 31 S.

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"Die Erwerbsbevölkerung in Deutschland altert rasant, gleichzeitig nimmt aber auch die Altersheterogenität in den Belegschaften zu. In der Literatur finden sich sowohl Hinweise auf einen positiven wie auch einen negativen Einfluss der Altersheterogenität auf den Teamerfolg. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, inwieweit die Altersheterogenität die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Betriebs beeinflusst, Produkt- oder Verfahrensinnovationen hervorzubringen. Auf Basis von Linked Employer-Employee-Daten des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Jahre 2009 bis 2013 werden verschiedene Indikatoren zur Messung der Altersheterogenität in der Belegschaft verwendet (Varietät, Separation, Disparität). Im Ergebnis findet sich ein negativer Effekt des Durchschnittsalters auf die Innovationsfähigkeit, allerdings erhöhen die Standardabweichung des Alters und die durchschnittliche Alterslücke die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Betriebs, Innovationen hervorzubringen. Eine Gleichverteilung der Altersstruktur zeigt hingegen keinen Zusammenhang zur betrieblichen Innovationsfähigkeit. Die unterschiedlichen Ergebnisse zur Heterogenität des Alters und der Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer weisen zudem auf eine höhere Bedeutung des allgemeinen Humankapitals für kreative Prozesse hin - im Vergleich zum Humankapital, welches betriebsspezifisch erworben wird." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Jessen, Jonas, Robin Jessen & Jochen Kluve (2019): Punishing potential mothers? Evidence for statistical employer discrimination from a natural experiment. In: Labour economics, Jg. 59, H. August, S. 164-172., 2019-04-02. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.002

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"Before 2006, large firms in Germany were obliged to pay for the generous maternity protection of female employees, such that firms' expected costs depended on employees' gender and age. From 2006 onward, all firms paid for maternity protection by contributing to the statutory health insurance system, where the contribution depends only on the number of employees and their wages and is thus independent of gender and age. This had been the regulation for small firms already before the reform. Using data from linked employer-employee administrative records, we provide evidence that the reform was followed by an increase in female relative wages within large firms. This reform effect provides evidence for statistical employer discrimination in the pre-2006 setup." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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Lübker, Martin & Thorsten Schulten (2019): Tarifbindung in den Bundesländern. Entwicklungslinien und Auswirkungen auf die Beschäftigten. (Elemente qualitativer Tarifpolitik 86), Düsseldorf, 39 S.

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Mohrenweiser, Jens, Thomas Zwick & Uschi Backes-Gellner (2019): Poaching and firm-sponsored training. In: BJIR, Jg. 57, H. 1, S. 143-181. DOI:10.1111/bjir.12305

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"A series of seminal papers argues that poaching hampers company-sponsored general training. Empirically, however, the existence and extent of poaching remain open questions. We provide a novel empirical strategy to identify poaching. We find that only few apprenticeship training firms in Germany are 'poaching victims' or 'poaching raiders'. Victims are more likely to be in a temporary downturn and raiders are more likely to be growing. Victims hardly change their training strategy after poaching and poaching seems be a transitory event. This is an important result for countries that intend to introduce apprenticeship-type training and need to convince firms to participate in training." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))