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Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative consensus on the need for 'making work pay' policies is muddied by a number of concerns relative to...
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The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...
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als in Deutschland unterstützt. Dies wurde durch einen Mindestlohn und eine ausgeprägte allgemeine Arbeitszeitverkürzung …In Deutschland wird im Kontext der Diskussion um Mindestlöhne häufig der Eindruck erweckt, dass die französische … seit Beginn der Wahrungsunion insgesamt stärker zu wachsen als Deutschland. Im Ergebnis war der Zuwachs an Beschäftigung …
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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
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We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...
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führen wir mit einem Arbeitsmarktmodell out-of-sample Prognosen für die Periode 1999q4-2001q2 durch. Mit dem Vergleich …
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