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

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

-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of … temporary employees in Germany using socio-economic panel data from the late 1990s. Compared to simple OLS estimates, using a …

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

Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings …

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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

parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis for the unified Germany reveals a long rum relationship between real wages … uncertainty. In contrast to previous studies for West Germany, we find that, unemployment is equally determined by technology …

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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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