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Roschan Monsef / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 2 14. June 2023 Changes in Personnel Movement at the Corporate Level in the Digital and Ecological Transformations

Structural change in the labour market is traditionally accompanied by a reallocation of workers from shrinking sectors and companies to growing ones. Old jobs are lost and new ones created.

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Changes in Personnel Movement at the Corporate Level in the Digital and Ecological Transformations
Roschan Monsef / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 2 14. June 2023

Changes in Personnel Movement at the Corporate Level in the Digital and Ecological Transformations

German Economic Institute (IW) German Economic Institute (IW)

Structural change in the labour market is traditionally accompanied by a reallocation of workers from shrinking sectors and companies to growing ones. Old jobs are lost and new ones created.

The digital and ecological transformations are in this respect no exception, though the extent of the change is still a matter of conjecture. Analyses based on the Spring 2022 wave of the IW Personnel Panel suggest that the redirection of business models and work processes towards more sustainability and climate protection could influence the volume of personnel movement. The turnover rate in firms that implement three or more value-adding climate protection measures is 9 percentage points higher than in companies that show less concern for the environment, while the churning rate is also 7 percentage points higher. However, neither of these increases is apparent in the manufacturing sector, where the introduction of climate protection measures is progressing fastest. Climate protection measures generally have a greater impact on personnel movement where they are combined with a digital transformation, and this is particularly true of trading and logistics companies. However, neither in individual sectoral clusters nor in the entire sample has the introduction of new digital technologies and processes alone been accompanied by an increase in personnel movement.

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Changes in Personnel Movement at the Corporate Level in the Digital and Ecological Transformations
Roschan Monsef / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 2 14. June 2023

Changes in Personnel Movement at the Corporate Level in the Digital and Ecological Transformations

German Economic Institute (IW) German Economic Institute (IW)

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Andrea Hammermann / Roschan Monsef / Oliver Stettes IW-Trends No. 4 22. January 2025

More Productive with AI?: How Companies and Employees Assess its Effects on Productivity

Almost one third of all employees in Germany have had at least one new artificial intelligence (AI) application introduced at their workplace since 2022. AI is most commonly used for automatic data processing and text recognition.

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Holger Schäfer IW-Trends No. 4 4. December 2024

Employment Dynamics in the Low-wage Sector

In 2021 around 13 per cent of the working-age population, or 19 per cent of those in dependent employment, were receiving a low wage, showing that this pay segment is continuing to decline.

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