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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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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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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

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Public works for Poland? : active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...

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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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A model-based analysis of the macroeconomic impact of the refugee migration to Germany

Stähler, Nikolai - 2017

By simulating various (labour market) integration scenarios with the aid of a New Keynesian DSGE model, this paper explores the potential economic consequences and transmission mechanisms resulting from the recent refugee migration to Germany. We find that the long-run costs and benefits for...

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The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU

Lang, Valentin - 2024

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

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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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