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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996 - 2003
Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U Profile"?
Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit: Zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
In this paper institutions are understood as rules of individual behavior. The focus is on the impacts of institutions … West Germany. In the background of this analysis, the influence of institutions on the allocation of resources is examined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068876
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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …
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