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Unemployment, labor market transitions, and residual wage dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

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Did the Hartz reforms speed-up job creation? : A macro-evaluation using empirical matching functions

Fahr, René (contributor); Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2006

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502681

Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778974

Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …

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Underemployment in the United States and Europe

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 74 (2021) 1, pp. 56-94

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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Strategic hiring behavior in empirical matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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The impact of skill mismatch on unemployment, informality, and labour turnover

Flórez, Luz Adriana; Gómez, Leidy - 2024

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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained...

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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assesssing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

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