Experts, firms, consumers or even hard data? Forecasting employment in Germany

Atypical employment in Germany

Innovation and Employment Growth in Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Aeronautical Firms in Germany∗

This paper investigates the impact of various agglomeration forces on employment and innovation for a sample of aeronautical cluster firms in Northern Germany and a control group of geographically dispersed aeronautical firms in other German regions. Employment growth is positively affected by labor market pooling but this effect is not cluster-specific. The firms’ probability of innovating is ...

Forecasting Using Consistent Experts

Combining forecasts from different models has shown to perform better than single forecasts in most times series. In this paper new techniques for combining a large number of forecasting models in order to achieve better forecasting performance are introduced. This class of new techniques for combining is based on using consistent experts for forecasting.

Forecasting supply and demand in nursing professions: impacts of occupational flexibility and employment structure in Germany

BACKGROUND In light of Germany's ageing society, demand for nursing professionals is expected to increase in the coming years. This will pose a challenge for policy makers to increase the supply of nursing professionals. METHODOLOGY To portray the different possible developments in the supply of nursing professionals, we projected the supply of formally trained nurses and the potential supply...

Forecasting the Profitability in the Firms Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Artificial Neural Network

Profitability as the most important factor in decision-making, has always been considered by stake­holders in the company's profitability. Also can be a basis for evaluating the performance of the managers. The ability to predict the profitability can be very useful to help decision-makers. That's why one of the most important issues is the expected profitability. The importance of these foreca...