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This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany … pillars of Germany's policy response to the crisis, prevented a further widening of labour market inequalities. In spite of …
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background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and …
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In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
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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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Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …
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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …
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statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
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Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
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We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …
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