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Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262270
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Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data
Kohns, Stephan - 2001
Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262548
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262540
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From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?
Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2006
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267832
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...
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The crisis, policy reactions and attitudes to globalization and jobs
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861347
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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 variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...
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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 offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …
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