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large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …
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large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319961
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large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment...
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determination of unemployment and wages in Germany and the U.K. Underlying this proposition is the notion that capital accumulation …, 1968q1-1995q4, Germany and the U.K. experienced big shocks which have affected their labor and product markets. The … dramatic rise in unemployment in the 1980s was attributed to adverse supply shocks. However, after the reversal of the shocks …
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sensitivity of inflation to unemployment rate changes. Improvement in fit from just including the online share is tiny—so far …During the recovery from the Great Recession, inflation did not reach the central bank's 2 percent objective as quickly … contestable and damped retail inflation. This hypothesis is tested using data on the online share of retail sales, which are …
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Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … data on households in five countries: Spain, Italy, Germany, Britain, and the US. Our empirical results indicate that an … increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with smaller consumption losses in …
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