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Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland zu einem großen Teil auf die anhaltende Schwäche der Binnennachfrage zurückzuführen ist. … employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … - especially in Germany - is mainly caused by labor market institutions and excessive wages. Rather there are several indications …
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Citizens of Southern Europe have been presented by the German media and politicians as lazy and work aversive. First, it is checked whether and to what extent those characterizations do reflect reality, and then, in view of the Greek economic crisis, it is shown that crises and not laziness...
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between investment and unemployment, c) we show the revival of the Phillips curve, especially in Germany, d) we test for the … reciprocal relationship. The variable considered are: unemployment, inflation, consumptions, investments and current accounts. We … relationship between unemployment and the Government deficit, e) we show the existence of a relationship between unemployment and …
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Potential links between inflation, (t), and unemployment, UE(t), in Germany have been examined. There exists a … and lagged relationship between inflation, unemployment and labor force has been also obtained for Germany. Changes in … negative relation between inflation and unemployment with the latter leading the former by one year: UE(t-1) = -1.50(t) + 0 …
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Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
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A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...
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This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke...
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The advancement towards knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social effects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy...
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This paper examines career choices using a dynamic structural model that nests a job search model within a human capital model of occupational and educational choices. Individuals in the model decide when to attend school and when to move between firms and occupations over the course of their...
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Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
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