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

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of dismissals above which the employer is required to establish a 'social plan' (involving severance payments). The effect of this reduction in 'firing costs' on movements in...

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

in science and engineering. These data imply that a one percentage point rise in the share of immigrant college graduates … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of about 15% in response to a one percentage point increase in immigrant college …

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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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 unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...

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

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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

Hunt, Jennifer; Burda, Michael C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...

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