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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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Comment on "Unemployment compensation and wages : evidence from the German Hartz reforms" by Stefan Arent and Wolfgang Nagl
Ludsteck, Johannes; Seth, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 5, pp. 635-344
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Unemployment compensation and wages : a difference-in-differences approach to assessing the wage effects of the German Hartz reforms
Weskott, Johannes B. D. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 1, pp. 89-110
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Unemployment compensation and wages : evidence from the German Hartz reforms ; reply
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 5, pp. 645-646
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Macroeconomic long-run effects of the German minimum wage when labor markets are frictional
Braun, Helge; Döhrn, Roland; Krause, Michael; Micheli, … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 351-386
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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000
unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …
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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment
Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Krause-Pilatus, … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 295-319
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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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Unemployment in the euro area and unconventional monetary policy surprises
Hülsewig, Oliver; Rottmann, Horst - 2022
2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to …. In the periphery countries, the reduction in unemployment rates is relatively pronounced, while in the core countries it …
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