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Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper surveys some …
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Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with the economic recovery being fragile. Against this background, we call for a global debt brake...
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Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten …A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal protection legislation. The …
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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze … labor market policies and Social Security institutions. We explain the various pathways to retirement existing in Germany …
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