workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … literature on the oil-unemployment relationship and relate them to the German case. Secondly, we illustrate this issue within the … 1973 to 2008, we show that oil price increases induce a rise in unemployment in the German labor market. Moreover, for a …