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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451838
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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003029180
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Problems of international labour cost comparisons
Hinze, Jörg - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 33 (1998) 3, pp. 146-152
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001240457
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384689
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A tale of two countries: a comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States … following the Great Recession. -- Sectoral shifts ; reallocation ; natural rate ; unemployment ; turbulence ; stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232258
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Old Europe's social model : a reason of low growth? ; The case of Germany
Siebert, Horst (contributor) - 2006
fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply low growth and high unemployment. An empirical index is constructed. In the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003367977
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Zur Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung : Probleme und Lösungsansätze in der deutschen Literatur
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2000
The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that … literature on reforming the system of unemployment insurance has arisen, most of it aiming at marginal reforms only. It turns out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495459
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Structural revolution : the interaction of product and labor markets
Schettkat, Ronald - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 36 (2001) 1, pp. 34-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001549428
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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001
keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US … unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative feedback between UI expenditures and layoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495405
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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany
Diehl, Markus - 2000
The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472495