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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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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …
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the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …
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Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non …
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. We find that the household's experience of a family related shock is positively associated with the participation in …
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highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by … European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is …
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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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According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result of maximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit-maximizing behaviour. Firms enter into contracts with their employees that include clauses about...
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large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant …
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