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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, Rene - 2006

Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …

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Before and after the Hartz Reforms : The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

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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Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010

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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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Gartner, Hermann - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

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