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The Determinants of Reservation Wages in Germany Does a Motivation Gap Exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high … in Germany compared to other countries. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions in male and female occupations

Görlich, Dennis; De Grip, Andries - 2007

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …

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The health gradient and early retirement: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel

Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2006

This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...

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The impact of new drug launches on the loss of labor from disease and injury: evidence from German panel data

Bui, Thi Mai Van; Stolpe, Michael - 2007

find that in Western Germany alone each new chemical entity has on average saved around 200 working years in every year of …

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Incentives to work: The case of Germany

Boss, Alfred; Elendner, Thomas - 2005

Based on a description of the German system of taxes and transfers, the incentives to work are analyzed for several groups of the labor force. The effects of the ?Hartz IV? reform (effective from 2005 onwards) on the incentives receive particular attention. It turns out that the marginal...

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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe: a discussion of some recent developments and projections

Plane, Mathieu; Döpke, Jörg; Chagny, Odile; Schmidt, … - 2001

The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...

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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

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