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Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...
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policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …
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stochastic volatility of asset prices and to give theoretical arguments for empirically well documented facts. We show that … stochastic volatility. …
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group so as to best match Miami's labor market features before...
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