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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010
of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …
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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data
Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009
In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...
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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world
Fries, Claudia - 2015
I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by …
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Labour market performance in OECD countries : a comprehensive empirical modelling approach of institutional interdependencies
Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2013
Reducing institutional rigidities in product and labour markets is key to lowering unemployment. The impact of such … changes in employment protection and the unemployment benefit system the impact on unemployment is mixed across countries …
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …
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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999
Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after unification. Our paper presents results from the estimation...
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