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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism

Carrington, William James - 2002

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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien

Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

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Threshold values in german labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries: a case study of Upper Bavaria

Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001

Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of survival are confirmed. Many more enterprises are...

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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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Overtime work, overtime compensation and the distribution of economic well-being : evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in "working time accountsʺ, which is …

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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence …

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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions

Buscher, Herbert S.; Müller, Claudia - 1999

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different volatility measures and four country groups. In...

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