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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
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We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...
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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …
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We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...
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positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …
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The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...
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periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …
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Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the … mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different …
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