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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics: a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

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

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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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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...

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Do public works programs work? Some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual?level panel data....

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