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Incentives and Complementarities of Flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper indicates that East Germany’s unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …

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The Urban Growth Potential of Second-Generation Migrant Entrepreneurs - A Sectoral Study on Amsterdam

Baycan-Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Sahin, Mediha - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This study focuses on the external orientations of the second-generation migrant entrepreneurs by addressing in particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic generations. The empirical data of our study is based on...

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Migrant Entrepreneurship and New Urban Economic Opportunities

Nijkamp, Peter; Sahin, Mediha; Baycan-Levent, Tüzin - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic growth. This paper addresses the key factors determining the position of migrant entrepreneurs in the urban economy in the Netherlands. In order to develop a solid assessment of...

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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

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