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The demand for money by private firms in a regulated economy: Theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence for Germany 1960-1998
Bohl, Martin T.; Sell, Friedrich L. - 2002
Based on a cash-in-advance approach, this paper investigates theoretically the determinants of money holdings of firms under the conditions of a highly regulated labor market and analyses empirically the demand for money of German businesses during the period 1960-1998. As a result of our...
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Is there a policy of optimal wage and income differentiation? A macroeconomic perspective
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2000
most likely responsible for a considerable part of European unemployment. …
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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency
Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the …
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Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies
Engler, Philipp - 2011
After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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The employment effects of labor and product markets deregulations and their implications for structural reform
Berger, Helge; Danninger, Stephan - 2006
This study explores the effects of market deregulation on employment growth. Empirical analysis of an OECD country panel (1990-2004) suggests that lower levels of product and labor market regulation foster employment growth, including through sizable interaction effects. A theoretical framework...
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Konjunkturprognosen: Verfahren, Erfolgskontrolle und Prognosefehler
Grömling, Michael - 2005
The economic forecasts for Germany in the period 2001 to 2003 grossly missed reality. Forecasters estimated an average … Germany even shrank by 0.1 per cent. Forecasters tend to be generally optimistic. The analysis of the forecasts in the years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262887
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Inflation, price dispersion and market integration through the lens of a monetary search model
Becker, Sascha; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
Recent monetary search models emphasize that the real effects of inflation via its impact on price dispersion depend on … the level of search costs and, thus, on the level of market integration. For less integrated markets, the inflation …-price dispersion nexus is predicted to be asymmetrically V-shaped which implies an optimal inflation rate above zero. For highly …
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2012
incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on … explained by the abolition of earnings-related unemployment assistance. …
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