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Before and after the Hartz Reforms : The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Abbritti, Mirko - 2012

volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms : Modelling the German Experience

Beissinger, Thomas - 2015

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …

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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction between Product and Labor Market Deregulation : Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Fiori, Giuseppe - 2007

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment when there are interactions between policies and institutions in product and labor markets. Using panel data for OECD countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence...

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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Ebell, Monique - 2006

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...

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Side Effects of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021

Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...

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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market : First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … could account for volatility differences across member states, but labor market characteristics have remained very diverse … significant negative effect on output volatility, while replacement rates have a positive effect, both of which are in line with …

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