governments in economic growth and low unemployment in order to win elections, there should be a link between political business …

US. A recent study by Hönigsberger (2008) for Germany basically concludes union members to overwhelmingly stick to their … contradicting empirical results, based on a newly constructed dataset for Germany. In a VAR analysis we find that the degree of … unionization of parliamentary members has a negative impact on economic growth and at the same time increases inflation while …

unemployment traps. Here, too, it holds true that market inclusion is practical solidarity. (4) In order to make a better use of …

In Deutschland wurde die öffentliche Diskussion um die Einführung eines flächendeckenden gesetzlichen Mindestlohns vor …Public discussion in Germany about introducing a general mandatory minimum wage was primarily led in normative terms …

responsible for persistently high and rising unemployment in Germany over the last two decades. …The generosity of unemployment insurance systems is constantly scrutinized by economists. Higher generosity of … unemployment insurance (UI) - usually defined by referring to the replacement rate of the former wage - is commonly known to be …

speed of labour supply and demand. The aggregate model is estimated for the Federal Republic of Germany. The results confirm … unemployment in the second half of the eighties. Final estimates of a non-linear error correction model give a hint on non …

find that the Beveridge-curve is everything but a straightforward tool to analyze structural unemployment. More insights …