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Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...

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Unemployment duration in Germany: individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany

Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

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The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

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Der Service Sentiment Indicator: Ein Konjunkturklimaindikator für den Wirtschaftszweig unternehmensnahe Dienstleistungen

Kaiser, Ulrich; Buscher, Herbert S. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

Diese Dokumentation stellt einen Konjunkturindikator für einen Bereich vor, der von der amtlichen Statistik nur unzureichend erfaßt wird. Dieser Service Sentiment Indicator ermöglicht es, die konjunkturelle Situation im immer wichtiger werdenden Wirtschaftszweig unternehmensnahe...

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Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model: the value of disaggregation

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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