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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …

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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wideranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Current Account Balances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area

Belke, Ansgar; Zemanek, Holger; Schnabl, Gunther - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

In the past decade, a set of euro area countries has accumulated large current account defi cits. After a brief relaxation of the euro area internal imbalances in the wake of the fi nancial crisis, it appears as if this pattern arises anew when times normalize again and Germany still sticks to...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

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