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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003

Myck, Michał; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - 2006

1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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Makroökonomie: Blind Spot Gender. Erweiterung makroökonomischer Indikatoren durch eine Gender-Komponente am Beispiel der empirischen Phillips-Kurve

Holst, Elke; Barth, Denise - 2019

Dieser Beitrag möchte einen Impuls zur stärkeren Berücksichtigung von Genderaspekten in makroökonomischen Modellen geben. Am Beispiel der Philipps-Kurve geht es um die Frage, ob sich das Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen und Männern so stark voneinander unterscheidet, dass sich dies im Verlauf...

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Capital accumulation, labour market institutions, and unemployment in the medium run

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - 2008

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid …

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

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

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The New Keynesian Model and the Long-Run Vertical Phillips Curve: Does It Hold for Germany?

Gottschalk, Jan; Fritsche, Ulrich - 2005

New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate cointegration … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

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Too rich to do the dirty work? Wealth effects on the demand for good jobs

Haywood, Luke - 2014

Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...

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The part-time wage gap across the wage distribution

Gallego Granados, Patricia - 2019

Part-time work has vastly expanded in most OECD labor markets during the last decades. At the same time, full- and part-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the female part-time wage...

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Maternal employment and happiness: the effect of non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction

Berger, Eva M. - 2009

In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much … mothers, non-participation is revealed to be a more serious problem than unemployment. …

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