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Das Erbe des Bürgerkrieges in Mosambik: Landbevölkerung verharrt in Armut

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 4, pp. 6-9

Wie bewältigen Haushalte den wirtschaftlichen Wiederaufbau nach einem Krieg? Sind einige Gruppen ländlicher Haushalte in einer Armutsfalle gefangen, während andere der Armut entfliehen können? Diese Fragen werden hier am Beispiel von Mosambik diskutiert, wo kurz nach der Unabhängigkeit im...

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

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The labor market performance of first-generation immigrants: Evidence for Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 1999

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...

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Die Validität erfragter Reservationslöhne: ein Test auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie

Christensen, Björn - 2003

Do reported reservation wages correspond to the concept of reservation wages in search theory? To answer this question …, reservation wages are calculated on the basis of stationary search theory and on job-search success observations of unemployed … persons in order to compare them with reported reservation wages from the Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). It is shown that for …

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Selektionsverzerrungen, erfragte Reservationslöhne und Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer

Christensen, Björn - 2003

This paper deals with the influence of reported reservation wages at the begin-ning of an unemployment spell on the … by correction for the selectivity bias can the theoretically expected positive effect of reservation wages on the …

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Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...

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The failure of the German labor market

Siebert, Horst - 2003

The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the institutional set-up of the labor market. It looks at the...

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