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The German labor market after the long boom : what's next?

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2025

Germany has long been portrayed as the best real-world example of an export-oriented economic model associated with a dualized labor market and welfare state. The success of this export-centered model over the last decades has typically been ascribed to competitiveness due to wage restraint and...

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Labor market concentration in Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Popp, Martin - 2025

Using register data, we document that the average German labor market, defined by hires in combinations of 3-digit occupations, requirement levels, and commuting zones, is highly concentrated (HHI=0.257). By EU antitrust thresholds, 56 percent of these labor markets feature moderate or high...

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Do early active labor market policies improve outcomes of not-yet-unemployed workers? : findings from a randomized field experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Stephan, Gesine; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2025

Inequality is a dynamic phenomenon, and the relative and absolute positions of individuals are subject to frequent shocks. It is important to know if preventive interventions mitigate adverse inequality effects of labor market shocks. We consider individuals up to three months before the...

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YouthView : a platform for interactive visualisations to explore youth disadvantage

Ujjwal, K.C.; Marchand, Steeve; Payne, Ana Abigail - 2025

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Enhancing public works programmes : sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation

Burchi, Francesco; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2025

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

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Refugee migration, unemployment and anti-asylum attitudes : evidence from the 1990s Yugoslav refugee crisis

Pecoraro, Marco; Lanz, Bruno; Ruedin, Didier - 2025 - This version: March 2025

temporary nature of labour market disruptions and the longer-term shift in anti-asylum attitudes consistent with contact theory. …

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Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - In: Labour economics : an international journal 93 (2025), pp. 1-16

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Labour-market reform, skill-based exports and employment : some unconventional results under finite change in general equilibrium

Ahuja, Rashmi; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat; … - 2024

unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … pertinent shocks that we consider. We show a small or minor labour market reform can paradoxically result in a larger … gradual and sequential labour market reforms. A big-bang approach to policy reform may work better by avoiding such an initial …

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The mutual influence of labour market polarisation, wage polarisation and political polarisation in the European Union

Rolník, Ondřej; Adamková, Katarína - In: Danube : law and economics review 15 (2024) 1, pp. 1-23

Union on recent developments in labour market structure. The labour market is undergoing changes that stem from … technological progress as well as outsourcing of low-skill activities, which are causing an increase in labour market and wage … ideological spectrums. In conclusion, the dependence of political polarisation on labour market polarisation and wage polarisation …

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Profiling green jobs and workers in South Africa : an occupational tasks approach

Mosomi, Jacqueline; Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2024

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