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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...

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Unemployment and input prices : a fractional cointegration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2000

This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of following the classical approach based on I(0) stationarity or I(1) cointegrating relationships, we use fractional integration/cointegration techniques which allow for the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614880

Fractional integration and the dynamics of UK unemployment

Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Henry, S. G. B. - 2000

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional approaches based on I(0) stationary or I(1) (integrated and/or cointegrated) models, we use the fractional integration framework. In doing so, we allow for a more careful study of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009582384

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) framework. For this purpose, we propose a method to estimate an exactly identified Subset SVECM, which is a SVECM with short run parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis...

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On the wages of temporary help service workers in Germany

Kvasnicka, Michael; Werwatz, Axel - 2002

This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary Help Service (THS) employment, as well as the long-term effects of THS work on the future earnings of workers. In addition, we present evidence showing that average male real...

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Price variability and price dispersion in a stable monetary environment : evidence from German retail markets

Fengler, Matthias R.; Winter, Joachim - 2000

We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for … consumption goods recorded in Germany during 1995, a low inflation period. We find a significant positive correlation between the … correlated with price changes. As the rate of inflation rises, both variability and dispersion become affected. During …

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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain

Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998

We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for the UK. We use a monthly panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; these are mapped on to travel-to-work areas. We find evidence of significant...

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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions : experimental evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998 - Rev.

One of the long-standing puzzles in economics is why wages do not fall sufficiently in recessions so as to avoid increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their employees to accept lower wages as well? As an...

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Twin peaks in regional unemployment and returns to scale in job-matching in the Czech Republic

Profit, Stefan - 1997

The regional distribution of unemployment rates in the Czech Republic over the transition period is shown to be characterized by twin peaks, e.g. a high and a low unemployment equilibrium. The emergence of strong regional disparities at the beginning of the 1990s can, at least partially, be...

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A nonparametric analysis of regional unemployment dynamics in Britain

Bianchi, Marco; Gylfi Zoega - 1997

This paper estimates the probability distribution of relative county unemployment in Britain for the years 1981-1995. We find that the distribution is unimodal in all years, with a falling variance between 1989 and 1994. We use bootstrap methods to determine critical values for the two tails of...

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