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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe

Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - 2014

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …

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Current unemployment variance decomposition and consequences of using proxies

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2021

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011

Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Fries, Jan - 2014

This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...

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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge

Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014

This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...

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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training

Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996

The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...

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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis

Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and …

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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe

Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016

A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...

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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...

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