Documents Lehmer, Florian 2 results

"In light of Germany´s transition approaches towards a sustainable energy system this paper examines differences of employment structure and wage differentials between renewable energy establishments and their sector peers. To do so, we have developed a novel data set by linking company-level information from the German Renewable Energy Federation with establishment-level data of the IAB Establishment History Panel. According to our descriptive evidence, there are significant differences in wages and in several other characteristics. Looking at the top-four renewable energy sectors, our estimates show that human capital and other establishment- level characteristics mostly explain the wage differential among manufacturers and energy providers. However, we find a persistent 'renewable energy wage premium' of more than ten percent in the construction installation activities and the architectural and engineering services. We interpret this premium as a positive indirect effect of the promotion of renewable energies for the benefit of employees in renewable energy establishments within these two sectors."

"In order to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, establishments had to invest in digital technologies. It remains unclear whether this has widened the ”digital divide“ between establishments - in other words, whether establishments experienced with new digital (so-called) 4.0 technologies have invested more heavily in further digitalization than establishments that had no experience of using such technologies before the pandemic. This question can be examined for the first time using data from the new IAB-IZA-ZEW ”Labor Market 4.0 Establishment Survey“. It shows that there was a digitalization boost due to the pandemic in only a few establishments. In fact, it was mainly establishments that had already gained experience with 4.0 technologies prior to the pandemic that made COVID-related investments so that the digital divide between establishments widened during the pandemic."
"Um in der Covid-19-Pandemie bestehen zu können, mussten Betriebe in digitale Technologien investieren. Offen ist bislang, ob der „digitale Graben” zwischen den Betrieben dadurch tiefer geworden ist – ob also digitalisierungserfahrene Betriebe stärker in eine weitere Digitalisierung investiert haben als Betriebe, die vor der Pandemie noch keine Erfahrung mit dem Einsatz solcher Technologien gemacht hatten. Diese Frage kann erstmals mit Daten der neuen IAB-IZA-ZEW-Betriebsbefragung „Arbeitswelt 4.0“ untersucht werden. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es während der Covid-19-Pandemie nur in wenigen Betrieben zu einem Digitalisierungsschub kam. Tatsächlich haben vor allem Betriebe, die vor der Pandemie schon Erfahrung mit sogenannten 4.0-Technologien gesammelt hatten, coronabedingte Investitionen getätigt, sodass sich der digitale Graben zwischen den Betrieben während der Pandemie vertieft hat."