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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour...

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Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...

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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model

Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

explained? The paper claims that changes in labour market institutions such as unemployment benefits, active labour market … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … or decreasing unemployment benefit generosity, both mostly addressing the margins of the labour market, i.e. 'outsiders …

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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201759

Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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