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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for … and search intensity. -- unemployment ; migration ; personality traits ; risk attitudes ; time preferences ; trust …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. -- immigration ; unemployment ; wages ; labor markets ; panel …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are …
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took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the … European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of …
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the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment …We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise in unemployment to a dramatic increase in inflow rates compared to …
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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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This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations...
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This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of … institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
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