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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996 - 2003

Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, V.; Kapeliushnikov, R.; Lukiyanova, A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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The New Keynesian Model and the Long-Run Vertical Phillips Curve: Does It Hold for Germany?

Gottschalk, Jan; Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …

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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low -skilled people and a …

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Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U Profile"?

Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

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