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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...
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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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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - 2008
From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
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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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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
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Disaggregate matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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Reallocation patterns across occupations
Bauer, Anja - 2015
measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337033
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Mismatch unemployment : evidence from Germany, 2000 - 2010
Bauer, Anja - 2013
suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …
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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries
Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016
This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...
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