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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment in search models. A review

Garloff, Alfred - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 43 (2010) 2, pp. 145-167

theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the effect can be … generally leads to an increase in unemployment as well. In this case, a social planner faces a trade off between redistribution … of rents and unemployment. …

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Typical employment subject to mandatory social security contributions remains the norm

Arnold, Michael; Mattes, Anselm; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 19, pp. 215-223

Since the 1980s, in West Germany has been a substantial decline in the number of people of working age who are not in paid employment. Accordingly, the share of 18- to 67-year-olds without a job has also fallen. This increase in employment figures primarily benefited those in marginal employment...

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A lockdown index to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus

Faber, Marius; Ghisletta, Andrea; Schmidheiny, Kurt - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 156 (2020) 1, pp. 1-23

test the explanatory power of the lockdown index for short-time work and unemployment increases by canton and industry …

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Increased labor market participation can't do the job of mastering Germany's demographic change in the future

Brenke, Karl; Clemens, Marius - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 325-334

In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because...

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Integrating refugees: A long-term, worthwhile investment

Fratzscher, Marcel; Junker, Simon - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 45/46, pp. 612-616

The debate about the massive influx of refugees into Germany often focuses solely on the short-term costs. But while these expenditures are bound to be substantial in the coming years, the discussion neglects the long-term economic potential of a successful integration of refugees - often, young...

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A DSGE Model of Slovakia with Frictional Labor Market and Monetary Regime Switch

Pápai, Adam - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 17 (2017) 3, pp. 287-313

The aim of this paper is to examine the dynamical and structural characteristics of Slovakia using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model augmented with search and matching mechanisms and other forms of frictions. I implement a switching mechanism to account for the monetary regime...

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Free Migration between the EU and Switzerland: Impacts on the Swiss Economy and Implications for Monetary Policy

Stalder, Peter - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 821-874

materialize. Moreover, the unemployment rate was lifted by 0.5 to 0.7 percentage points and household suffered from lower real … agreement reinforces the swings in GDP and employment growth but dampens the swings in unemployment and inflation. In contrast …, if the reaction of migration flows to rising and falling labor demand is asymmetric, unemployment might increase over the …

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Are "fair" wages quantitatively important for business cycle fluctuations in Bulgaria?

Vasilev, Aleksandar - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 20 (2020) 1, pp. 91-105

We introduce "fair" wages in a general-equilibrium model where worker's effort is unobservable and investigate whether such a mechanism can quantitatively account for the degree of real wage rigidity in the Bulgarian labor markets, as documented in Lozev, Vladova, and Paskaleva (2011) and...

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The parental leave benefit: A key family policy measure, one decade later

Huebener, Mathias; Müller, Kai-Uwe; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 49, pp. 571-578

On January 1, 2017, the parental leave benefit will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. Although its implementation was fervidly debated, it has become a widely accepted family policy measure. Its impact on parental labor supply, the division oflabor between parents, fertility, and indicators...

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Dependent self-employment: workers between employment and self-employment in the UK

Böheim, René; Mühlberger, Ulrike - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 42 (2009) 2, pp. 182-195

Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

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