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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...

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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis

Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...

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Die Arbeitsmarktanalyse in der wirtschaftspolitischen Beratung des Sachverständigenrates

Franz, Wolfgang - 2013

dem Hintergrund der hohen und persistenten Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in den jeweiligen Jahresgutachten des SVR einen …

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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world

Fries, Claudia - 2015

I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform causes an additional indirect effect through a terms-of-trade...

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Labour market institutions and structural reforms : a source for business cycle synchronisation?

Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2009

Erweiterungsprozesses der Europaischen Union an Bedeutung gewonnen. In theoretischer Hinsicht gilt eine hohe Sychronisation der … Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen sowie der Steuern auf Arbeit sind wichtige Determinanten für eine grössere Ähnlichkeit der … Zyklen. Gleichartige Reformen hinsichtlich der Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen, der Lohnersatzraten sowie der Steuern auf …

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Institutions and unemployment : do interactions matter?

Sachs, Andreas - 2011

Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between individual labor market institutions have been widely...

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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...

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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...

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Job creation schemes in turbulent times

Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...

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