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Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005024331

Governmental policies to reduce unemployment during recessions: Insights from an ABM

Bauermann, Tom - 2020

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate ""Pain Threshold"" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify pain thresholds for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wideranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934835

Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509371

When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509374

Macroeconomic effects of tariffs shocks: the role of the effective lower bound and the labour market

Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2020

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