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The German labor market miracle, 2003-2015 : an assessment

Burda, Michael C. - 2016

This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...

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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014

Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016

The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437993

Union wage compression in a Right-to-Manage model

Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2007

Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003422977

The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009

Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

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

renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality : new insights from a dynamic trade model with heterogeneous firms and comparative advantage

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2013

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226867

Aggregate employment, job polarization and inequalities : a transatlantic perspective

Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2016

structural change. Our objective is to shed light on the way labor market institutions affect aggregate employment, job …

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Trade liberalization and wage inequality : new insights from a dynamic trade model with heterogeneous firms and comparative advantage

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2013 - This version July 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452459

Frictions or deadlocks? : job polarization with search and matching frictions

Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2015

the bottom of the wage distribution. By using this framework, we shed light on the way in which labour market institutions …

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Smoothing the adjustment to trade liberalization

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - 2014

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to analyze economic policy meant to compensate the losers of trade liberalization and reduce the ensuing wage inequality. We consider several...

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