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Petersberger Erklärung : Anstöße für eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Hagen, Jürgen von - 1998

In this paper six authors propose guidelines for German labor market policy, to overcome current discouragement and lead to a new balance of social security and individual competetiveness. Crucial aspects in this regard should be a reformed tax system based on excise instead of income taxes, and...

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Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

distortions in the transport market. In absence of these distortions and despite spatial terms in wages, the standard condition …

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Trade and location with land as a productive factor

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

the stylized facts, notably that wages are higher in larger locations, land-use for production and housing has to be taken …

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Endogenous job destruction and job matching in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2007

. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages …

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Integration, agglomeration and welfare

Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable 'new economic geography' model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is bubbleshapedʺ, i.e. it...

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How does imperfect competition in the labor market affect unemployment policies?

Wauthy, Xavier Yves; Zenou, Yves - 2001

different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education … subsidy either the education cost or wages and compare them. We found that the first best allocation can only be implemented … firms and show that, in terms of welfare, subsidizing education costs or wages is strictly equivalent. …

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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...

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Local social capital and geographical mobility : some empirics and a conjecture on the nature of European unemployment

David, Quentin (contributor); Janiak, Alexandre (contributor) - 2008

European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to...

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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...

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Agglomeration and tax competition

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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