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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: Evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in ?working time accounts?, which is …

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Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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Employment, wages, and the economic cycle: differences between immigrants and natives

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Vogel, Thorsten - 2009

large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …

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Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes : Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?

Bonin, Holger - 2004

Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten …A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal protection legislation. The …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Kombilohn oder Workfare? Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik: Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen

Eichhorst, Werner - 2006

approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an …

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Reforming German labor market institutions: a dual path to flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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From the dual apprenticeship system to a dual labor market? The German high-skill equilibrium and the service economy

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...

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