. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … apply event history methods to analyze longitudinal samples of first-birth transitions in France, Finland, Germany, and the …

inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of … unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

, interest rate spreads and asset price inflation should be added to the classical Taylor rule because these variables are … the Fed is concerned, the impact of consumer price inflation, and money and credit growth turns negative during the crisis … while the sign of the asset price inflation coefficient turns positive. Thus we are able to establish significant …