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Sozialhilfe, Lohnabstand, Leistungsanreize und Mindestlohnarbeitslosigkeit

Boss, Alfred - 2001

impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2016

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

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

Christensen, Björn - 2002

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

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Keynesian and monetarist views on the German unemployment problem : theory and evidence

Gottschalk, Jan - 2002

Persistently high unemployment rates in Germany have led to a long-running controversy on the causes of the … unemployment problem. This paper aims to review the contribution of Keynesian and monetarist theories to this controversy and … explores empirically their implications for the explanation of high unemployment in Germany using a structural vector …

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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?

Wright, David - 2015

Extending working life is an objective for many nations. However, the UK government has recently reported only modest improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early retirement much faster than the UK since 2003. This...

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Has atypical work become typical in Germany? Country case studies on labour market segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or dualization of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Work Hours Constraints and Health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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