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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2005

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …

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Quantilsregressionen der westdeutschen Verdienste: Ein Vergleich zwischen der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung und der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Reize, Frank - 2002

Diese Arbeit vergleicht die Verdienststrukturen in Westdeutschland für die Jahre 1990 und 1995 basierend auf der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung und der IAB?Beschäftigtenstichprobe. Wir betrachten Verdienstunterschiede im Hinblick auf die berufliche Qualifikation, das Geschlecht, den...

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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition

Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - 2002

children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - 2005

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according the local embeddedness and research affinity of founders....

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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?

Engel, Dirk - 2002

Mit der Venture Capital (VC)-Finanzierung als Teil eines regionalen Innovationssystems sind Erwartungen verbunden, die Kommerzialisierung neuer Forschungsergebnisse in marktfähige Produkte in einer Region zu fördern. In Erwartung positiver Effekte eines solchen Kapitalzuflusses in eine Region...

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Occupational and locational substitution: measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility

Aldashev, Alisher - 2009

The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...

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Spanish regional unemployment revisited: The role of capital accumulation

Bande, Roberto; Karannassou, Marika - 2010

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as … capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

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