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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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Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
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This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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This paper presents a simple model to examine the implication of credit market imperfections when considering the massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents to acquire skills to work in non-agricultural sectors....
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The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
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This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when young and henceforth to become skilled when old. We show that endogenous occupational choice in this...
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