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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Multinational resilience or dispensable jobs? : German FDI and employment in the Czech Republic around the Great Recession

Eisermann, Merlind; Moritz, Michael; Stockinger, Bastian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The intense involvement of German firms in the economy of the neighboring country via foreign direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

"We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

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Regional employment forecasts with spatial interdependencies

Hampel, Katharina; Kunz, Marcus; Schanne, Norbert; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...

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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...

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Structural change and performance of the German environmental sector

Horbach, Jens; Blien, Uwe; Hauff, Michael von - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"The so-called Environmental Sector produces technologies, products and services that prevent or reduce environmental damages. On the background of growing environmental problems such as climate protection this sector seems to be more and more important. Contrary to that, a theoretical model...

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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 …

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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people

Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....

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