Arbeitspapier
Labour Demand in Germany: An Assessment of Non-Wage Labour Costs
The data indicate that non-wage labour costs in Germany have reached a record high in recent years. From 1972 to 2001, the ratio of non-wage labour costs to direct compensation in West German manufacturing industry rose from 55.6 per cent to 81.2 per cent. The topic of non-wage labour costs is increasingly being discussed among and between the political parties because non-wage labour costs are likely to have major negative effects on employment. We follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firm´s revenues are stochastic and adjustment costs are sunk. Simulation exercises show that the interaction between hiring and firing costs, non-wage labour costs and uncertainty can have important ramifications for employment dynamics.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 952
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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real options
labour demand
non-wage labour costs
hiring and firing costs
Germany
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Chen, Yu-Fu
Funke, Michael
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2003
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chen, Yu-Fu
- Funke, Michael
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2003