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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
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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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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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This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …
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In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how … drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put …
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Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
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