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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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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, V.; Kapeliushnikov, R.; Lukiyanova, A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

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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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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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The New Keynesian Model and the Long-Run Vertical Phillips Curve: Does It Hold for Germany?

Gottschalk, Jan; Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …

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Too Rich to Do the Dirty Work?: Wealth Effects on the Demand for Good Jobs

Haywood, Luke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...

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Estimating Gross Employment Effects of Environmental Protection: The DIW Method

Blazejczak, Jürgen; Edler, Dietmar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to carefully document delimitations and methods used in any...

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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

, pushing the low skilled into unemployment. This latter hypothesis is confirmed by analyzing the effects of changes in labor … supply on unemployment. …

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