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In the debate about relocation to the developing countries of “structurally weak” industries the clothing industry has attracted the special interest of academic and political economists in the Federal Republic of Germany. The following article constitutes a summary of the most important...
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This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It covers engineering and allied industries, and metal working industries. A unique data set of actual hours of work is combined with comparable real output and employment...
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Stehen die USA vor einer Rezession und wenn ja, hat die europäische Politik Grund zur Sorge? Wie groß ist das Risiko … für die europäische Wirtschaft und welche Gegenmaßnahmen sollten in Europa eingeleitet werden? Andreas Rees, UniCredit …, Deutschland, sieht die US-Wirtschaft nicht kurz vor, sondern schon in einer Rezession: "Etliche gängige Konjunkturindikatoren …
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Die weltwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ist im Frühsommer 2004 aufwärts gerichtet. Die USA, Südostasien, Japan und - wenn … Rohstoffpreisen. Auch lassen die stimulierenden Wirkungen von Geld- und Fiskalpolitik nach. Die deutsche Konjunktur allerdings zeigt …
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older US studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...
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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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