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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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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration : new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

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Keynesian and monetarist views on the German unemployment problem : theory and evidence

Gottschalk, Jan - 2002

Persistently high unemployment rates in Germany have led to a long-running controversy on the causes of the … unemployment problem. This paper aims to review the contribution of Keynesian and monetarist theories to this controversy and … explores empirically their implications for the explanation of high unemployment in Germany using a structural vector …

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Ausmaß und reale Konsequenzen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne : eine Untersuchung für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt

Bläs, Barno - 2008

; equilibrium unemployment ; inflation target ; Phillips curve ; Lucas critique ; Germany …

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Uncertainty shocks and employment fluctuations in Germany : the role of establishment size

Kovalenko, Tim - 2021

Uncertainty shocks are found to adversely affect labor market outcomes. Most studies attribute labor adjustments costs for the propagation of macroeconomic uncertainty to the labor market. Given that large establishments in Germany face higher labor adjustments cost, they should be affected more...

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Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...

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Extensive vs. intensive margin in Germany and the United States : any differences?

Merkl, Christian; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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