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The reintegration of the South African economy into the global economy and its influence on (un)employment in the post-apartheid era
Smet, Koen - 2011
The present thesis examines the trade structure of South Africa as well as the impact of this structure on (un)employment. The starting point of this work is a descriptive analysis of the South African trade structure. Besides a general discussion, the thesis elaborates on structural differences...
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Towards an explanation of cross-country asymmetries in monetary transmission
Georgiadis, Georgios - 2012
I quantify the importance of financial structure, labor market rigidities and industry mix for cross-country asymmetries in monetary transmission. To do so, I determine how closely the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock obtained from country-specific vectorautoregressive (VAR) models...
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Hundert Punkte für mehr Beschäftigung
Siebert, Horst - 1996
das grundsätzliche Problem der Diskrepanz zwischen Angebot und Nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt. Es kann heute nicht mehr als … den sechziger Jahren mit 5,4 vH und in den siebziger Jahren mit über 4 vH. Die Lohnpolitik kann nicht davon ausgehen, daß … Arbeitslebens zugewiesen. Im Grunde muß für den Arbeitsmarkt gelten: Wer die Tarife (die Löhne) setzt, ist auch für die Mengen (also …
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Lohnsenkungswettbewerb in der EWU: Deflationsgefahr oder Beschäftigungsimpuls?
Kromphardt, Jürgen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 79 (1999) 2, pp. 85-89
In der September-Ausgabe 1998 des WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST veröffentlichten wir einen Aufsatz von Angela Schürfeld mit dem Titel „Droht ein Lohnsenkungswettbewerb in der Europäischen Währungsunion?". Hierzu Repliken von Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt sowie von Dr. Arne Heise und Thorsten Schulten...
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Central and East European labor markets in transition: Developments, causes, and cures
Franz, Wolfgang - 1994
The main questions addressed in this paper are, firstly, how labor markets in the Visegard countries reacted to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy. Secondly, it is analyzed which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to...
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Zuwanderer gehen vor allem in wirtschaftsstarke Regionen: Sechs Fragen an Karl Brenke
Brenke, Karl; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 18, pp. 18
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EU enlargement, migration and labour market institutions
Lundborg, Per - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 39 (2006) 1, pp. 24-34
This paper discusses free immigration to regulated labour markets (as in Europe) and to unregulated labour markets (as in the US), and explores the implications for migration flows of collective agreements, employment protection laws, product market regulations etc. It is argued that the...
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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...
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