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We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...
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DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …
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-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern and Central Europe. In addition, the automobile industries of Germany … differed considerably between Germany, Japan and the United States. Economic restructuring was least pronounced in the US … automobile industry, largely due to the resistance of trade unions. As a result, the employment record and the world …
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major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …
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Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …
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microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …
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Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird …
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Germany in particular. The determinants of sectoral shifts are analytically decomposed into the demandbias and the … technologies and related shifts in intermediate demand. The productivity-bias is valid for most countries, but not for Germany …
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heterogeneity in the sectors and industrial branches in Germany individuals are separated into sub-groups. The results of my …
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This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...
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