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Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …

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10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

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Another Economic Miracle? The German Labor Market and the Great Recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

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15 Years of Pension Reform in Germany: Old Successes and New Threats

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a …

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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …

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Workfare: Eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn

Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic …

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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Demographic Aging in Germany Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper …

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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …

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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …

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