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The indirect effects of direct democracy: Local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives

Asatryan, Zareh - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Recently a wide and empirically-backed consensus has emerged arguing that direct democratic control over government's spending decisions through initiatives and referenda constrains government size. But what happens if budgetary matters are excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …

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