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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers’ reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to...
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Trade Unions, Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States
Burda, Michael C; Funke, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The rapid wage increases observed in Eastern Germany over the past two years have important implications for the direction taken by structural change in this region. These implications are not solely negative, and remain controversial in the public debate. This paper discusses four aspects of a...
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Winning the War, Losing the Peace? Britain's Post-War Recovery in a West German Mirror
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper places Anglo-German growth after World War II in a long-term comparative perspective. Reviewing explanations of why post-war Germany is more dynamic than Britain, we evaluate arguments stressing institutional change, catching-up, and country-specific long-term experience. Examining...
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Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labour Markets
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Velling, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
previous level. Especially for unemployment we find large effects of an increased foreign share. We conjecture that these … results might be spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean … unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504240
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany: Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666858
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The Innovation, Unemployment and Competitiveness Challenge in Germany
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661481
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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