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

Christensen, Björn - 2001

This paper investigates the reservation wages of unemployed persons on the basis of a job-search model with non …-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 … 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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They are even larger! : More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das amerikanische System, auch anders als das deutsche, eine negative Rückkopplung zwischen den Ausgaben für die Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von...

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Ein funktionstüchtiges System privater Arbeitslosenversicherung

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

Es wird untersucht, wie ein System privater Versicherungen gegen das Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit beschaffen sein sollte. Zu dem Zweck wird ein Trennsystem vorgeschlagen, das Arbeitnehmern und Arbeitgebern gleichermaßen Anreize zur Verminderung von Arbeitslosigkeit gibt. Für die Arbeitnehmer...

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

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

This paper analyses how and to which degree the Danish flexicurity concept and its various elements achieve the renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate...

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Sozialhilfe, Lohnabstand, Leistungsanreize und Mindestlohnarbeitslosigkeit

Boss, Alfred - 2001

percent). Thus, the incentives to work are strongly impaired. The downward adjustment of wages for low skilled workers was …

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The small core of the German corporate board network

Milaković, Mishael (contributor); … - 2008

highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the … the existence of a core in Germany's board and director network. Conditional on being a board member, it is very … monitoring ability. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network formation ; market capitalization …

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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different …. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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