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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C. - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

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Are Immigrants the Best and Brightest U.S. Engineers?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2013

Using the American Community Surveys of 2009 and 2010, I examine the wages of immigrants compared to natives among engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to...

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Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 1996

Starting in 1985, (West) German unions began to reduce standard hours on an industry by industry basis, in an attempt to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is theoretically ambiguous. I test this using both individual...

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2008

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2000

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using state-level data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …

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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio …

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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours

Hunt, Jennifer - 1996

A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …

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Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment : An Examination of Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - 1994

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of …

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Wage Mobility in the United States

Buchinsky, Moshe - 1996

This paper examines the mobility of individuals through the wage and earnings distributions. This is of extreme importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the United States over the last few decades. The measures...

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How Restricted is the Job Mobility of Skilled Temporary Work Visa Holders?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

Using the National Survey of College Graduates, I investigate the degree to which holders of temporary work visas in the United States are mobile between employers. Holders of temporary work visas either have legal restrictions on their ability to change employers (particularly holders of...

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