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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - 2008
Die Studie analysiert die theoretischen Auswirkungen von Mindestlöhnen auf Beschäftigung und Lohnspreizung in einem fluktuationsbedingten Szenario. Es wird ein Überblick über neue theoretische Forschungsansätze gegeben und der Einfluss von Mindestlöhnen auf Einkommen und Beschäftigung in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874124
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Magnitude, structure and dynamics of chronic unemployment in Denmark, Finland and Germany
Aho, Simo; Konle-Seidl, Regina; Nørup, Iben; Rhein, Thomas - 2019
Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …
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Which factors are behind Germany's labour market upswing?
Hutter, Christian; Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo; … - 2019
The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105105
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services
D’Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604671
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The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk
Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022
Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more likely to work in relatively stable and countercyclical...
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Why do Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis.
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2008
consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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The unemployment impact of the COVID-19 shutdown measures in Germany
Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2020
from employment into unemployment in April 2020 were due to the containment measures. In a second approach, we make use of … the unemployment effect coming from the separations margin. In sum, the lockdown measures increased unemployment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222508
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Labour hoarding in Germany : employment effects of short-time work during the crises
Kruppe, Thomas; Scholz, Theresa - 2014
During the crisis (2008-09) Germany experienced a huge decrease in GDP. Employment, however, remained surprisingly stable. A whole strand of literature has aimed at quantifying the contribution of short-time work to the German labour market miracle. In the course of this literature we estimate...
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Retention and re-integration of older workers into the labour market : what works?
Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2017
risk of persisting unemployment, however, remain specific problems of the elderly. Government sponsored programs to support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646809
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Where did all the unemployed go? : non-standard work in Germany after the Hartz reforms
Rothe, Thomas; Wälde, Klaus - 2017
this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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