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This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885 – 1933. There are three key results. First, the...
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the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …
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Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many …-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed …
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Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many …-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed …
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The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000...
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