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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

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The macroeconomics of the labor market: Three fundamental views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias

Kopp, Andreas - 1998

Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...

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Regional labor markets, network externalities and migration: the case of German reunification

Uhlig, Harald - 2007

, two equilibria can result: one with a high networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no … emigration (?West Germany?) and one with a low networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant …

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...

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What can a New Keynesian labor matching model match?

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009

A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and...

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

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Sozialhilfe, Lohnabstand, Leistungsanreize und Mindestlohnarbeitslosigkeit

Boss, Alfred - 2001

impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …

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A tale of two countries: A comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States …

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