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Structural change revisited : the rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector

Boddin, Dominik; Kroeger, Thilo - 2021

This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation...

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Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis : the role of digitalisation and working-from-home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2022

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …

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Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies

Engler, Philipp - 2011

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …

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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019

large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …

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Labor market reforms, precautionary savings, and global imbalances

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Moyen, Stephane; Stähler, Nikolai - 2019

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …

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Direct, spillover and welfare effects of regional firm subsidies

Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021

We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...

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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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The employment effects of countercyclical infrastructure investments

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

's completion. The reductions in unemployment amounted to two-thirds of the job creation, and employment grew predominately in the …

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa

Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021

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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?

Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019

In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...

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