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The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects the fact that the shocks that hit the economy were...
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population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries except Germany. The UK population has …
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-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …
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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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The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies of U.S. gross worker flows have yielded contradictory findings, and it is not easy to get a sense of the key moments of the data. Debates have emerged regarding the implications of these flows for the understanding of the...
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) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
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The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …
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miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …
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Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
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