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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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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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on the incidence of unemployment in different sex-age groups. The German population has aged substantially in recent … be expected to lead to fluctuations in age-specific unemployment rates. In general, this intuition is confirmed by the … estimations presented here. A strong positive relationship between the size of a cohort and its relative unemployment experience …
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The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …
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One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon whether immigrants and natives act as substitutes or complements. In the first part of the study...
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aggregate unemployment. In this paper we explore a related but more specific issue: the consequences of immigration on the …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of …
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This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …
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Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...
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