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We focus on the influence of institutional variables on business cycle synchronisation for 20 OECD countries from 1979 to 2003. More precisely, this paper derives measures for similarity of institutions and structural reforms, and investigates direct and delayed reform effects on synchronisation...
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training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads … general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …
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, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …
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In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
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