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Evidence on unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...
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What happened to the transatlantic capital market relations?
Weber, Enzo - 2007
This paper investigates the capital market relations between Euroland and the USA from 1990 until 2006. Formally based …
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Who leads financial markets?
Weber, Enzo - 2007
The present paper embarks on an analysis of interactions between the US and Euroland in the capital, foreign exchange, money and stock markets from 1994 until 2006. Considering influences on financial market volatility, the estimations are carried out in multivariate EGARCH models using...
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Does international outsourcing depress union wages?
Braun, Sebastian; Scheffel, Juliane - 2007
In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer-employee data for Germany. We find that low skilled workers experience a decline in the union wage premium when working in industries with high outsourcing intensities. The...
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A note on the effect of outsourcing on union wages
Braun, Sebastian; Scheffel, Juliane - 2007
We analyze the effect of outsourcing on union wages in a simple two-stage game between a firm and a union. In contrast to public perception the ease with which the firm can outsource parts of their production does not necessarily reduce the wage set by the union. Even in the simple model...
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The impact of international outsourcing on labour market dynamics in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Braun, Sebastian - 2008
Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we … hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to …
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Shrinking Labour Forces and Early Retirement
Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 31-37
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Recession and Umemployment in the OECD
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David - In: CESifo Forum 11 (2010) 1, pp. 14-22
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Youth Education and Employment – Recent Danish Reform Experiences
Andersen, Torben M. - In: CESifo Forum 18 (2017) 2, pp. 47-51
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Product market deregulation and employment outcomes: Evidence from the German retail sector
Senftleben-König, Charlotte - 2014
retail employment in Germany. In 2006, the legislative competence was shifted from the federal to the state level, leading to … regional variation in the legislation in order to identify the effect product market deregulation has on retail employment. We … find robust evidence that the deregulation of shop closing legislation had negative effects on retail employment, with …
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