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Internationale Direktinvestitionen, die als entscheidender Motor der Globalisie­rung gelten, werden mehr und mehr durch Fusionsaktivitäten dominiert. Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre ist eine ausgeprägte Welle von Direktinvestitionen und eine entsprechende Welle grenzüberschreitender Fusionen...
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Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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We describe the determinants of energy intensity, carbon intensity, and CO2 emissions in the German manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2007, applying the LMDI index decomposition technique not to aggregate but to micro data. We trace back changes in total CO2 emissions from manufacturing to...
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Using the statistical technique of fuzzy clustering, regimes of inflation and unemployment are explored for the United … inflation/unemployment space. There is considerable similarity across the countries in both the regimes themselves and in the … timings of the transitions between regimes. However, the typical rates of inflation and unemployment experienced in the …
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Based on a Cox Proportional Hazard analysis of German unemployment spells, structural change of the production process … is identified as a major explanation for long-term unemployment. Other important covariates capture labor market … economy, or spend a longer time in unemployment searching for the few remaining jobs for which they possess adequate skills. …
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Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird … untersucht, ob die Arbeitslosenversicherung dazu beigetragen hat, die Arbeitslosigkeit zu senken. Die deskriptive Analyse und …>The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS has done nothing to prevent …
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keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die … großen Teil an der Nachfrage nach Arbeit ansetzt. <p>Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of … the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative …
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System der Absicherung von Arbeitslosigkeit zu einem individualistischen Trennsystem zu bewältigen. Zunächst wird die … unemployment insurance, using data of the year 2000. It is shown how much the individual employee would have to invest for a … variety of unemployment payments and for a variety of individual "real" risks. In addition, it is demonstrated that each …
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not actually necessary because there is a comprehensive model called “unemployment benefit II”. Instead, the reduction of … the rate of contributions to the unemployment insurance system should be considered as a useful policy option. …
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die jeweils zugrunde liegende politische Situation als auch bezüglich der Höhe der Arbeitslosigkeit. Es wird gezeigt, daß …>In search of an efficient system of unemployment insurance the authors take a look at German history. Four periods of German … unemployment insurance are analyzed, namely those of 1871/1914, 1918/32, 1933/39 and 1949/2001. These periods differ greatly with …
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