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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Macroeconomic aspects of structural labor market reforms in Germany

Dovern, Jonas (contributor); … - 2006

Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany

Diehl, Markus - 2000

major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …

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Globalization of the automobile industry : Traditional locations under pressure?

Spatz, Julius - 2002

-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern and Central Europe. In addition, the automobile industries of Germany … differed considerably between Germany, Japan and the United States. Economic restructuring was least pronounced in the US …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

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Zur Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung : Probleme und Lösungsansätze in der deutschen Literatur

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2000

Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird …

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The impact of international outsourcing on the skill structure of employment : empirical evidence from German manufacturing industries

Diehl, Markus - 1999

In recent publications it has been argued that the change of the skill structure of industrial employment is caused by biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices for final goods with prices of primary factors, most...

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Old Europe's social model : a reason of low growth? ; The case of Germany

Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2006

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

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