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This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …
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employment assumption (i.e. Stolper-Samuelson theorem), might be misleading. In addition, in the case of fixed real wages, the …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …
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The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins of their welfare states that can be traced to a unique set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to participate in the...
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This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all … on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …
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