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Skills in African labor markets and implications for migration to Europe

Backhaus, Andreas - 2020

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes …, workers in Ghana and Kenya are substantially less skilled than workers in Europe. The paper further considers a number of … be a remedy for skill shortages in Europe unless migrants are positively selected on their skills. In that case, however …

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How competitive is Europe's labor?

Siebert, Horst - 1999

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other …

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2008 - Rev. version

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment regions). We suggest that the...

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Active labour market policy in East Germany : waiting for the economy to take off

Lechner, Michael (contributor); Wunsch, Conny (contributor) - 2007

We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database coming from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that...

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2007

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Einstellungsgutscheine: konkrete Ausgestaltung für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; … - 2007

This paper describes the practical implementation of hiring vouchers in Germany (Kiel Working Paper 1302 "Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies" by Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower). According to our proposal employers receive vouchers for hiring longterm...

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Macroeconomic aspects of structural labor market reforms in Germany

Dovern, Jonas (contributor); … - 2006

Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue an independent monetary policy nor the possibility...

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Wage subsidies and international trade : when does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - 2010

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...

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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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