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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition
Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531771
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097544
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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics: a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097764
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labor markets able to absorb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097796
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097817