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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment

Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2019

unemployment on the level of regional labor markets. Using variation in the regional exposure to the new wage floor, we employ a … difference-in-differences approach that compares the evolution of employment and unemployment between regions with varying … reduction is not accompanied by a proportional increase in unemployment. …

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Inclusive growth : what future for the European social model?

Schmid, Günther - 2014

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

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Work hours constraints : impacts and policy implications

Constant, Amelie; Otterbach, Steffen - 2011

If individuals reveal their preference as consumers, then they are taken seriously. What happens if individuals, as employees, reveal their preferences in working hours? And what happens if there is a misalignment between actual hours worked and preferred hours, the so-called work hours...

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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership : sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany ; the EU and the US

Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment. Thus export simulation studies in combination with...

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Agenda 2020 : strategies to achieve full employment in Germany

Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This strategy paper by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) shows ways in which Germany once more can attain full employment in the coming decade. Much of what the previous government's "Agenda 2010" has put into motion has clearly steered labor market development in the right direction....

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Youth unemployment in Korea : from a German and transitional labour market point of view

Schmid, Günther - 2013

By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU - 27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea’s youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …

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Inclusive growth : the case of Germany

Schmid, Günther - 2018

This paper argues that inclusive growth appears to be the only suitable strategy for realising the right to decent work (RDW) in the digital economy. This reasoning is in blunt opposition to the current mood of giving up this right in favour of an unconditional basic income (UBI). The study...

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Basic income and a public job offer : complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2017

Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned income and a good job to the growing numbers in precarious- or under-employment, while the second...

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The US unemployment insurance, a federal-state partnership : relevance for reflections at the European level

Fischer, Georg - 2017

This paper describes the US Unemployment Insurance (UI) in particular the federal-state partnership in governance … the US experience for European level unemployment benefit or welfare schemes. Given the strong position of the EU member …

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Whither activation policies? : reflections for the future

Martin, John P. - 2016

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have been embraced by many OECD countries. In a previous paper, I have argued that activation strategies have performed well during the Great Recession and subsequent recovery in some, but not all, of these...

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