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As a reaction on high and persistent unemployment in Germany, the largest labour market reforms in post-war history … on the efficiency of matching out of unemployment. Especially focussing on searcher heterogeneity, we estimate a system … of simultaneous stock-flow matching functions for short-term and long-term unemployment (3SLS) on the basis of …
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The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
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This paper investigates the time-varying relationship between German output and employment growth, in particular their decoupling in recent years. We estimate a correlated unobserved components model that allows for persistent and cyclical time variation in the employment-GDP linkage as well as...
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This paper investigates the time-varying relationship between German output and employment growth, in particular their decoupling in recent years. We estimate a correlated unobserved components model that allows for both persistent and cyclical time variation in the employment impact of GDP as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401756
From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
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