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We develop a general equilibrium analysis of the impact of active labour market policy on unemployment, wages and the … employed have little exposure to unemployment and if the demand for unskilled labour is inelastic, there may be political … support for policies which actually raise the equilibrium level of total unemployment. …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this Paper we analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
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We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … 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 …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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The purpose of this paper is to link the twin horns of the European economic dilemma - unemployment and a loss in … international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … the Standortkrise (location crisis) and the Arbeitslosenkrise (unemployment crisis) to form a triad of economic challenges …
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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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Poor countries must specialize in standardized, labour-intensive commodities. Middle-income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labour force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...
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the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of short-time work, unemployment would have …
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separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …
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