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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen von 2003 bis 2005 haben entscheidend zu einer bemerkenswerten Trendumkehr auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt beigetragen und damit auch einen wichtigen Beitrag geleistet, das Land besser auf die Konsequenzen des bevorstehenden demografischen Wandels vorzubereiten. Die...
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The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...
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In 2012, a new law allowed firms in Portugal to reduce the overtime premium paid by half. Until then, as in other countries, premiums were subject to a minimum level. We analyse matched panel data, including worker-level (base and overtime) hours and pay, to study the effects of the resulting...
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Germany did not establish a statutory minimum wage until 2015. The new wage floor was set at an initial level of €8 …
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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