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1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …
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"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
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heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
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The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …
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We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
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According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …
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. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …
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New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …
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"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
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"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to 'inverse cohort crowding' or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …
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