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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...
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Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Velling, Johannes - 1995
wesentlichen neutral, mitunter sogar positiv auf den Arbeitsmarkt. gewirkt hat, während sonst die Zuwanderung negative Effekte …The work permit is the most important instrument to control the labour market access of foreign immigrants in Germany …
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Modelling heaping effects in unemployment duration models : with an application to retrospective event data in the German socio-economic panel
Kraus, Florian; Steiner, Viktor - 1995
Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping effects may lead to severe biases in estimated...
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Is the German apprenticeship system a panacea for the US labour market?
Harhoff, Dietmar; Kane, Thomas J. - 1995
market outcomes for apprentices in Germany and high school graduates in the United States. Apprentices in Germany occupy a … provide evidence that the problem of forming labor market bonds is particularly acute for minority youth in Germany as well as …
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Is the German apprenticeship system a panacea for the US labor market?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …
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