Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
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Forschungsthemen15
Arbeitgeber- und Arbeitnehmeranpassungen an ökonomische Schocks, an interagierende Schocks und an Schocktransmission
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 10/2014 - 09/2017 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Einstein Stiftung Berlin Zeitraum: 04/2011 - 09/2016 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
BSE Insights
Quelle ↗Förderer: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Zeitraum: 04/2021 - 09/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
DFH-Spitz-Oener
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 10/2008 - 12/2011 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Die Rolle von Unternehmen bei der Integration von MigrantInnen
Quelle ↗Förderer: Andere internationale Stiftungen Zeitraum: 10/2024 - 09/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Digitalisation and the Skill Requirements in the Labour Market—Evidence from the Past 4 Decades
Quelle ↗Förderer: Andere internationale Stiftungen Zeitraum: 10/2021 - 09/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Flexibilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit Beschäftigter mit Ausbildung im Rahmen der dualen Berufsausbildung
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 08/2008 - 02/2011 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
FOR 5675/1: Arbeitskräfteknappheit und die Rolle von Unternehmen im Arbeitsmarkt (TP 01)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Forschungsgruppe Zeitraum: 06/2025 - 06/2029 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Prof. Dr. Jan Nimczik
NORFACE Research Programme Migration in Europe
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 10/2009 - 09/2013 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
SFB 649/2: Dienstleistungsberufe: Möglichkeit der Reduzierung von Arbeitsmarktrisiken Geringqualifizierter (TP A 09)
Quelle ↗409-02-A · SoftwaretechnikFörderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2009 - 12/2016 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
SFB/TRR 190/1: Hindernisse für die Konvergenz in der regionalen Entwicklung: Verhaltensökonomische Erklärungen (TP A07)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2017 - 12/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger Ph.D.
SFB/TRR 190/2: Determinanten und Folgen kultureller Heterogenität (TP A07)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 12/2020 - 12/2024 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
SFB/TRR 190/3: Determinanten und Folgen kultureller Heterogenität (TP A07)
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2025 - 12/2028 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
SPP 1764/2: Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt in der Globalisierung: Herausforderungen durch Handel, Technologie und Demografie
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Schwerpunktprogramm Zeitraum: 10/2017 - 03/2021 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
VA: EALE SOLE AASLE World Conference 2020
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG sonstige Programme Zeitraum: 05/2020 - 08/2020 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener
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Publikationen25
Top 25 nach Zitationen — Quelle: OpenAlex (BAAI/bge-m3 embedded für Matching).
Journal of Labor Economics · 1228 Zitationen · DOI
Empirical work has been limited in its ability to directly study whether skill requirements in the workplace have been rising and whether these changes have been related to technological change. This article answers these questions using a unique data set from West Germany that enabled me to look at how skill requirements have changed within occupations. I show that occupations require more complex skills today than in 1979 and that the changes in skill requirements have been most pronounced in rapidly computerizing occupations. Changes in occupational content account for about 36% of the recent educational upgrading in employment.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 586 Zitationen · DOI
In the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, Germany was often called “the sick man of Europe.” Indeed, Germany's economic growth averaged only about 1.2 percent per year from 1998 to 2005, including a recession in 2003, and unemployment rates rose from 9.2 percent in 1998 to 11.1 percent in 2005. Today, after the Great Recession, Germany is described as an “economic superstar.” In contrast to most of its European neighbors and the United States, Germany experienced almost no increase in unemployment during the Great Recession, despite a sharp decline in GDP in 2008 and 2009. Germany's exports reached an all-time record of $1.738 trillion in 2011, which is roughly equal to half of Germany's GDP, or 7.7 percent of world exports. Even the euro crisis seems not to have been able to stop Germany's strengthening economy and employment. How did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world transform itself from “the sick man of Europe” to an “economic superstar” in less than a decade? We present evidence that the specific governance structure of the German labor market institutions allowed them to react flexibly in a time of extraordinary economic circumstances, and that this distinctive characteristic of its labor market institutions has been the main reason for Germany's economic success over the last decade.
The Review of Economics and Statistics · 343 Zitationen · DOI
In this study, we explore a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct measures of job tasks and gives a comprehensive characterization of how work for men and women has changed in recent decades. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic and interactive tasks. The most notable difference between the genders is, however, the pronounced relative decline in routine task inputs among women, driven, at least in part, by technological change. These changes explain a substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap.
Gospodarka Narodowa · 127 Zitationen · DOI
Od chorego człowieka Europy do ekonomicznej megagwiazdy:
Managerial Ownership and Company Performance in German Small and Medium- Sized Private Enterprises
2006German Economic Review · 61 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract We analyse the relationship between managerial ownership and company performance, testing the incentive and entrenchment hypothesis. Differently from previous literature, we focus on small and medium-sized private enterprises which constitute an important part of the German economy. We use a panel of 356 companies in the German business-related service sector for the years 1997-2000. Our findings are that performance, measured by survey-based profit information, is increasing in managerial ownership by up to around 40 per cent. We do not find a significant entrenchment effect, possibly because, at levels at which managers could become entrenched, they already bear a large proportion of the costs and have therefore an incentive to maximize company value.
Research Policy · 49 Zitationen · DOI
Economics of Transition · 28 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract We analyse how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self‐employment and occupational mobility. We exploit German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated and unregulated occupations in East Germany with the corresponding differences in West Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self‐employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our findings are relevant for transition or emerging economies as well as for mature market economies requiring large structural changes after unforeseen economic shocks.
The Review of Economics and Statistics · 26 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, a sudden, unexpected, and massive influx of East German migrants hit the entire West German labor market. The context is well suited for investigating whether immigration influences natives' wages and how the effects depend on product and labor market conditions. We propose direct measures of potential migration with exogenous variation, compare migrants to natives with similar capabilities, and segment the labor market along predetermined margins. We find that immigration can have negative effects on the wages of natives. These effects surface when product and labor markets are competitive but not under regulations that restrict the entry of firms and provide workers with a strong influence on firms' decision making.
Working paper series - Institute for Fiscal Studies/Working papers · 23 Zitationen · DOI
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany with the corresponding differences in West Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into selfemployment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our findings are relevant for transition or emerging economies as well as for mature market economies requiring large structural changes after unforeseen economic shocks.
Labour Economics · 10 Zitationen · DOI
We exploit a unique historical setting to investigate how refugee-specific government aid affects the medium-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. Among German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West Germany between 1946 and 1961, only the subgroup acknowledged as being “political refugees” were eligible for refugee-targeted aid, and only after 1953. We combine several approaches to address identification issues resulting from the fact that refugees eligible for aid were both self-selected and screened by local authorities. We find positive effects of aid eligibility on educational attainment and income among male and female refugees who migrated as young adults (aged 15 to 24). Among male refugees who migrated as children (aged 1 to 14), we find that aid eligibility at arrival leads to an increased likelihood of enrollment in the academic track of secondary school, but we see no such effect on female refugees who arrived as children.
Journal for Labour Market Research · 10 Zitationen · DOI
SSRN Electronic Journal · 10 Zitationen · DOI
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 8 Zitationen
In the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, Germany was often called "the sick man of Europe." Indeed, Germany's economic growth averaged only about 1.2 percent per year from 1998 to 2005, including a recession in 2003, and unemployment rates rose from 9.2 percent in 1998 to 11.1 percent in 2005. Today, after the Great Recession, Germany is described as an "economic superstar." In contrast to most of its European neighbors and the United States, Germany experienced almost no increase in unemployment during the Great Recession, despite a sharp decline in GDP in 2008 and 2009. Germany's exports reached an all-time record of $1.738 trillion in 2011, which is roughly equal to half of Germany's GDP, or 7.7 percent of world exports. Even the euro crisis seems not to have been able to stop Germany's strengthening economy and employment. How did Germany, with the fourth-largest GDP in the world transform itself from "the sick man of Europe" to an "economic superstar" in less than a decade? We present evidence that the specific governance structure of the German labor market institutions allowed them to react flexibly in a time of extraordinary economic circumstances, and that this distinctive characteristic of its labor market institutions has been the main reason for Germany's economic success over the last decade.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 8 Zitationen · DOI
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 6 Zitationen
What is the impact of a local negative demand shock on local labor markets? We exploit the unique natural experiment provided by the drawdown of U.S. military forces in West Germany after the end of the Cold War to investigate this question. We find persistent negative effects of the reduction in the U.S. forces on private sector employment, with con- siderable heterogeneity in terms of age and education groups, and sectors. In addition, the U.S. forces reduction resulted in a rise in local unemployment, whereas migration patterns and wages were not affected.
National Institute Economic Review · 5 Zitationen · DOI
At the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, employees in East Germany were at least as well educated as employees in West Germany in terms of formal educational qualifications. However, it is unclear to what extent the skills and knowledge acquired through the East German education system, and through employment in a socialist labour market, are transferable to the new market-based economy. This study aims to shed light on this issue by giving a comprehensive description of the work of those employees who remained employed after the first phase of restructuring (i.e. in 1991) in East Germany, and comparing it with work in West Germany. Overall, the similarity between workplaces in East and West Germany soon after reunicication is striking. In addition, the patterns of task changes between 1991 and 1999 were very similar in both parts of Germany. Neither the level of task inputs in1991 nor the changes in task inputs between 1991 and 1999 were driven by cohort effects, a surprising finding given how differently the age groups were affected by the historical event. The Largest difference between the east and the west exists in terms of workplace computerisation. Although East Germany has caught up rapidly, it was still lagging behind the west in terms of computer use in 1999.
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The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct measures of job tasks and gives a comprehensive characterization of how work for men and women has changed in recent decades. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non-routine interactive tasks, which are associated with higher skill levels. The most notable difference between the genders is, however, the pronounced relative decline in routine task inputs among women with little change for men. These relative task changes explain a substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in part, by technological change. We also show that these task changes are related to the recent polarization of employment between low and high skilled occupations that we observed in the 1990s.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2 Zitationen · DOI
Econstor (Econstor) · 1 Zitationen · DOI
We exploit a unique historical setting to investigate how refugee-specific government aid affects the medium-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West Germany between 1946 and 1961 who were acknowledged to be "political refugees" were eligible for refugee-targeted aid, but only after 1953. We combine several approaches to address identification issues resulting from the fact that refugees eligible for aid are both self-selected and screened by local authorities. We find positive effects of aid-eligibility on educational attainment, job quality and income among the refugees who migrated as young adults (aged 15-24). We do not find similar effects of aid-eligibility for refugees who migrated as children (aged 1-14). The overall results suggest that factors coming from the refugee experience per se do not impact negatively on the later-in-life socio-economic success of refugees. The often-found negative effects in various measures of integration in other refugee episodes are therefore likely driven by confounding factors that our unique historical setting allows mitigates.
SSRN Electronic Journal · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research · DOI
"This report documents the harmonization of occupational and regional variables between two ad-ministrative datasets: the Data Fund of Societal Work Power (GAV) of the German Democratic Re-public (GDR) and the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEB) of the Federal Republic of Ger-many. The linkage combines demographic and labor market data from 1989 with employment his-tories post-1992, enabling analysis of East German labor market trajectories around reunification. Occupational harmonization follows a two-step process, converting detailed GDR codes into the standardized 2010 and 1988 classification systems. Regional harmonization employs both manual mapping and modern geospatial techniques to align 1989 GDR locations with 2014 county bound-aries. The high match rate and robust validation ensure that the resulting harmonized dataset is a reliable resource for longitudinal labor market research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)
Revue économique · DOI
Revue économique · DOI
À l’aide de nouvelles données reliant les informations administratives sur la situation professionnelle des travailleurs en République démocratique allemande (RDA) avant et après la réunification, j’étudie la mobilité professionnelle pendant la « Wende » (1989-1992). Je compare les schémas des travailleurs de la RDA avec ceux des travailleurs de la République fédérale d’Allemagne (RFA) issus de la même cohorte de naissance. Les résultats révèlent diverses facettes de la mobilité professionnelle, y compris le reclassement et la rétrogradation. Les travailleurs de la RDA affichent notamment une mobilité professionnelle beaucoup plus élevée que les cohortes correspondantes en RFA. En ce qui concerne les sorties de l’emploi, la cohorte la plus âgée (58-60 ans en 1989) est en tête des chiffres globaux dans les deux parties de l’Allemagne, ce qui reflète l’application généralisée des régimes de retraite anticipée à l’époque. Classification JEL : J62, P23.
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · DOI
This entry discusses the task-based approach to labour demand and technological change. Unlike conventional theory, employees’ skills are distinguished from the tasks they perform. Jobs (or occupations) are considered as bundles of tasks and when the occupational structure changes, wage inequality changes, too. A key observation is that recent changes in the occupational structure are characterized by polarization and a shift from routine to non-routine tasks. The number of middle skill routine jobs decrease while the high skill and low skill non-routine jobs are increasing. Task-based models provide not only explanations for how technological change but also how international trade and offshoring affect labour markets. These models also point to trade-offs facing employers in delegating authority to workers for instance in connection with use of AI.
Harvard Dataverse · DOI
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