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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537086
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
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A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691302
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592293
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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592346
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Churning and institutions : Dutch and German establishments compared with micro-level data
Alda, Holger; Allaart, Piet; Bellmann, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour …, regulation, and social security systems will show the importance of these institutions for the mobility of individuals. In this … market institutions exerting some influence on churning appear to be: the share of fixed term contracts in total employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537116
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Demographic effects on the German labour supply : a decomposition analysis
Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Forecasts show a substantially decreasing and ageing labour force in Germany. This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537128
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004
"Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537134
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What have we learned? Assessing labor market institutions and indicators
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies …: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537146
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Vollbeschäftigungsannahme und Stille Reserve : eine Sensitivitätsanalyse für Westdeutschland
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"Die Arbeit untersucht, wie stabil die Ergebnisse der jüngst vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung veröffentlichten Berechnungen zur Stillen Reserve für den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2002 hinsichtlich der zentralen Modellannahme über die Höhe der Vollbeschäftigung sind. Dazu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537160