piecewise linear model with a higher inflation-unemployment tradeoff for the regime of low unemployment rates fits the data very … well. The results hold true if we control for endogeneity of the unemployment rate. With a kinked but upward sloping …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view … with and without apprenticeship training. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the U …

cycle display a persistence problem. In this paper, we follow the approach of Walsh (2002) and include search unemployment … complete our analysis we confront the results of our simulation to time series data for the U.S., U.K. and Germany. Our main … result is that the introduction of search unemployment does improve the capability of the model to reproduce some stylized …

Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits … have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment … levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher level of unemployment benefits improves the workers' position in wage …

Several European countries have reformed their labor market institutions. Incentive effects of unemployment benefits … have been an important aspect of these reforms. We analyze this issue in a principal-agent model, focusing on unemployment … levels and labor productivity. In our model, a higher level of unemployment benefits improves the worker's position in wage …

higher exposure at least in Germany. Moreover, our findings suggest that exposure also depends on the prevailing level of the …

Hausarbeit geprägt ist, befindet sich im Wandel. Dennoch gilt Hausarbeit in Deutschland immer noch als typisch weibliche Aufgabe …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the …