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Labor market reforms and current account imbalances: Beggar-thy-neighbor policies in a currency union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Slow adjustment to shocks or true hysteresis? Lessons from the different labour market performances in Western Europe and the USA

Kösters, Wim; Belke, Ansgar - In: Intereconomics 31 (1996) 3, pp. 107-121

In Western Europe in the last two decades the unemployment rate has increased during cyclical downturns only to persist … pattern of unemployment persistence, often termed hysteresis, is the United States. The following article examines the …

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Institutions and Structural Unemployment: Do Capital-Market Imperfections Matter?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - 2001

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …

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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: A Panel Data Analysis

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - 2002

reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

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Does Venture Capital Investment Spur Employment Growth?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - 2003

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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