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The Post-Unification German Labor Market

Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

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Another economic miracle? The German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...

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Aggregate returns to individual decisions : development, income inequality and competition for jobs and workers

Sunde, Uwe - 2003

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Lessons from migration after EU enlargement

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed unevenly among countries. The proportion of these...

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