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Job stability trends and labor market (re-)entry in West Germany 1984 - 1997

Mertens, Antje - 1999

jobs in rough times separate analyses are carried out those who have entered the job directly from unemployment or non …

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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?

McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.

same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …

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Complementarity of labor market institutions, equilibrium unemployment and the propagation of business cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - 2001

This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model economy. Matching between workers and vacancies with endogenous time spent in search, Nash{bargained wages, payroll taxation, and...

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Unpaid overtime in Germany : differences between East and West

Anger, Silke (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Complementarity of labor market institutions, equilibrium unemployment and the persistence of business cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - 1999

This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a stochastic dynamic general equililbriurn model econorny. Matching between workers and vacancies with endogenous search intensity, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and...

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Sources of German unemployment : a structural vector error correction analysis

Brüggemann, Ralf - 2001

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …

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Job stability trends, layoffs and quits : an empirical analysis for West Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Mertens, Antje - 2000

This paper studies signs and reasons of decline of job stability in West Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-1997, we look at two measures for job stability. Based on repeated cross sectional data we first show that medium elapsed tenure declined for men. Secondly, we...

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Self-rated and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from german panel data

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2002

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as...

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Distribution-invariant dynamic risk measures

Weber, Stefan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and (my,p)-portfolio optimization

Jaschke, Stefan R.; Küchler, Uwe - 1999

This paper presents a general theory that works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and certain classes of portfolio optimization problems. It is economically general in the sense that it works for any cash stream spaces, be it in dynamic trading settings, one-step...

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