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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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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU …
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We argue that firms’ balance sheets were instrumental in the propagation of shocks during the Great Recession. Using establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up (“high-leverage firms”) exhibit a significantly larger decline in employment in...
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the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … educated. We analyse the returns to education in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom, countries which differ … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of …
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This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …
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