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Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
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The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is typically difficult. This paper uses a structural model to explain the answers on a set of questions...
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Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
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Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 6/2008 stellen Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve und Christoph M. Schmidt, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Essen, erste Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung zu den Auswirkungen des Postmindestlohns...
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