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A Test of the ‘Krugman Hypothesis’ for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ‘rigid’ in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market...

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Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany

Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in …

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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …

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