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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes:Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment …

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark... …

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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does ItAffect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to theearlier …

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...

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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...

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Labor Market Policies and Outcomes:Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27

Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EUmember states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in LaborMarket Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004...

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