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We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean …
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The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and … characteristics of the households in the survey and unemployment rates in the industries in which the households usually work. The … influence of tax-benefit reforms on unemployment using an equation that attaches a moderately strong prior belief to the theory. …
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elasticities for those who experienced unemployment during the previous year and those on higher incomes; for average employed men …
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This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the introduction of flexible labour contracts (i.e. with low firing costs), which occurred in many European countries in the 1980s, which it then tests on Spanish data. The model predicts that such contracts increase...
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. Furthermore, they fail to allow for quantity rationing and to model unemployment as a catastrophic event. The macroeconomics based …
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The aim of this paper is to better understand the impact of unemployment on the design of Pay-As-You-Go pension systems … unemployment rate and the length of life. We then characterize the issue-by-issue voting equilibrium and compare it to the optimal …
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