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Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the emplyment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions. Job creation entails some fixed costs, but existing jobs are subject to diminishing returns. We characterize the equilibrium in the de-regulated...
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Work and Television
Corneo, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the...
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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 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 … 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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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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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health
Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis use because the legal status of cannabis in the...
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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems
Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases...
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Cannabis use and suicidal ideation
Fergusson, David; Horwood, John; Ours, Jan C van; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30 year longitudinal...
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